Genocide In The Middle Easy

 Ahmed Raqdah, Joey Nasser, and Ralph Bogsarian

My title service had some glitches.

Instead of "Middle East" ( Sharq al-Awsat), they came through with "Middle Easy" ( Mahl al-Awsat).

I think I shall use it. It will remind us that the administration said the war would cost 1 billion....TOPS! They also said it would be a cakewalk, a picnic in the park, and a ride through the woods to gramma's house. Their understanding of the nature of war was somewhat deficient.

So, here we are looking at the Big Ol' Middle Easy. Joey Nasser went off on a tirade about the US giving billions to Sunni governments, ostensibly to defend against the mighty and powerful Iran, which- by the way- is a Shi'a government. His pals, Ahmed and Ralph, just shook their heads and went out for a smoke.

Joey Nasser says that the US gave the secular Sunni Saddam Hussein millions and weapons to fight the Shi'a in his own country and to fight the Shi'a government of Iran. Well, that all went to heck in a tiffin box, but now we're at it again: fight the mighty Iranian threat. Only it's weapons to all Sunni's in the area; no weapons to Shi'a. Now it may strike you as strange that the government of Iraq in its present incarnation as the government of Al-Maliki has a majority of Shi'a representatives.  
Surely the Maliki government is a Shi'a government that GETS weapons! Let us look at that.  

Al-Maliki, a Shiite activist who spent the Saddam Hussein years in exile, hotly objects to the recent U.S. practice of recruiting tribal groups tied to the Sunni insurgency for the fight against the Sunni extremists of al-Qaida. His loud complaints have won little but a U.S. pledge to let al-Maliki's security apparatus screen the recruits. Aides say that the Iraqi leader also has spoken bitterly about delivery delays of promised U.S. weapons and equipment for his forces. http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w31/idw2007.07.29.13.40.41.html

So Joey Nasser says its a plan to ethnic cleanse the Shi'a! It was a plan to instill Civil War in the House of Islam! And so on... All the guys down at Hanaan's Diner looked at what he had. Some of us tried to argue, but they petered out. All we could say is that it was so incredibly stupid, no one in their right minds could come up with such a foreign policy....... Then we looked silently at each other, eyes opening wide with disbelief at what we'd said.

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