We are in an extreme transition here on earth. Witness what is happening in Syria and Iraq. I could blame Putin and Iran for this transition and many of you do too. However, I think a better way to look at this is Assad's response (with Russia's and Iran's help) was the straw that broke Sunni patience with Shias.
Obama is trying to focus this as Tazidis and Christians being wiped out all across Iraq and Syria. And this is true. But, what is really taking place is the conscious genocide of all Shias by irate Sunnis who have watched patiently waiting for the U.S. and Europe to save the Sunnis of Syria.
However, no one came to save the Sunnis of Syria from war technology provided by Russia and Iran to Assad and not to the Syrian rebels.
Why did this happen?
Sphere of Influence is the best answer to prevent an earth killing nuclear war that would sweep away all mankind and all life on earth and possibly the earth itself.
However, now we have the potential genocide of not only all Shias in the middle East but also (because they are in much smaller numbers there) all Christians in the Middle East (this is happening in Syria and Iraq right now) as well as the wiping out of all Tazidis who don't just run. And many of them are dying without water or food (especially the young and the old and the infirm) because they don't have the health or strength to run and to survive).
This is creating entirely new precedents which I believe is heralding a World War. Could this war have been stopped? Will this new world war be stopped before it gets worse?
I'm not entirely sure this new war can be stopped. It is important to realize here that Sunnis 1.2 billion of them have been upset with everyone who hasn't been Sunni on earth ongoing since the 600s AD. They are especially upset with Shia Muslims centered in Iran and the Syrian government and the present Iraqi government and interested in permanently ending not only Shia governments but all Shias away off the face of the Earth because there are only 160 million Shias total in the middle east right now.
Can this reaction to the genocide for 4 years of Sunnis in Syria be controlled or stopped?
I wish I could say "Yes!" but I'm not sure that is presently realistic given world dynamics.
What the U.S. is doing now with help from NATO and other countries might help to keep Kurdistan, the Government of Iraq intact, and possibly Lebanon and Jordan and Israel intact, but it will not keep Assad in power in Syria. Only Russia and Iran can continue to do that.
And right now, Iran is worrying about it's own survival and horrified by what is happening to Shias in Iraq and Syria from ISIS. Because if richer ISIS fighters keep coming to IRaq and Syria, Iran might even be in trouble if those richer ISIS fighters bring some of their own heavy weaponry that they might be able to afford to buy along the way like tanks, and armored vehicles and other things like that.
Obama has gone in with Jet fighters and bombers and drones to stop Isis from killing Tazidis and Christians but realizes he cannot really get into the middle of the Sunni Shia war without creating problems for the U.S., europe and other NATO and other nations too.
So, he has to emphasize it is the Tazidis and the Christians he is saving for the Shias and the Sunnis to understand that he is not taking one side or the other in their now ongoing horrific sectarian war that is now in full swing.
I think no matter what Obama does now the Sunni Shia sectarian war will continue something like this for some time.
However, taking back the dams like the U.S. and Kurds are doing will save millions of lives and prevent ISIS from blowing up the dams and killing millions downstream with a wall of water 20 feet high.
However, to me, the single biggest problem is the photo of the little boy holding the head of the Syrian soldier.
This is a 9-11 event for the whole world in this photo.
Because it symbolizes the death of civility in the middle east. Civility is gone and might not come back for some time because of the Sunni Shia War.
I don't think Obama can put the Rabbit back into the hat other than protecting Kurdistan and possibly protecting the Iraqi government from falling. Besides that, I think men in the whole world will change watching men be killed and their women raped and sold and likely the same for the children.
And this will have much worse consequences for the entire world civilization wise than 9-11 did for America and the world ongoing.
I think it likely eventually could result in a draft of both women and men if this conflict widens here in the U.S. and other countries. I think women have had all the rights given to them but now they might have to also fight and die like men always have too. In Nordic cultures women often fought alongside their men so it is not surprising if the draft is reinstated in the U.S. and other countries now in the long run as a result of the genocides of whole cultures out of existence in the middle east and the taking of their properties, women and children ongoing.
Obama now is trying to put a band-aid on a broken arm or leg. This won't be enough to stem the tide of irate Sunnis coming to ISIS to Fight the Shias and to genocide them and all other minorities ongoing. God Help US!
I also think it is interesting that the Tazidis who have always believed in Equal Rights for women are being singled out by ISIS to be killed on sight and their women taken as sex slaves and their chidren taken too and all their properties taken even above what is being done to Christians and Shias.
Later: Imagine a 9-11 in the Middle East that goes on for years through ongoing genocides of Sunnis and Shias and Christians and Tazidis and all other groups there. We just saw what the last 12 or 13 years did from a few hours of 9-11.
The middle east has had a 9-11 going on for 4 years in Syria and now genocide in Iraq as well as Arab Spring throughout the Middle East. 9-11 in the end was only about 3000 people in the U.S. for a few hours and this cost trillions of dollars to get to where we are now.
What is an ongoing 9-11 in Syria and Iraq of ongoing genocides of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children going to do to the world? Think about this for a moment?
And then add to that 9 million displaced Syrians in their own country or having fled to other countries. Now add about 1 million or more survivors spanning out across the world from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon etc. trying to survive this present ongoing for years 9-11 ongoing in the middle east.
It is not really possible to compare 3000 dead to ongoing genocides for years and years by ISIS and Assad which kill hundreds of thousands and have displaced 9 million just in Syria and about 2 million or more in Iraq already. The human costs stagger the mind. And the ongoing repercussions will be felt by the whole world related to their proximity to the Middle East geographically. There has not been a humanitarian catastrophe as bad as this since the last Cold War before 1991. I don't think anyone will disagree with me on this point.
Now, add to that the horrors of Crimea (which we aren't really talking about) and the horrors of Ukraine ongoing. This looks like another world war (like World War II in the making right now).(hopefully without nukes being used).
Later still: I think without all the genocides and what is happening in Ukraine and Crimea and Russia that Ebola would have easily been contained already. However, with everything going on at once it is about priorities.
It is possible that the whole world has more to fear from Ebola in the long run if it mutates than it even does from genocide in the short run between Shias and Sunnis and all the Middle eastern minorities like Christians and Tazidis.
It all depends on whether Ebola exists long enough in enough different people to become airborne through mutation. If it does this then it could mean about half of mankind or more could die from Ebola long term. This I think might be the most serious danger outside of nuclear war ending all life on earth that humanity is dealing with right now.
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