He’s definitely on the side of the Saudis (Sunni). Somebody posted an article on FR about this being the defining factor in Obama’s actions. The article didn’t get enough attention, in my opinion, but I’ll try to find it for you. I hope I posted on it so I can track it back!
Also, while I thought the articles by Norman Podhoretz and Conrad Black that have been posted here today are truly, truly excellent (identifying Obama as a radical leftist who actually is carrying out his policy, because he intentionally wants to reduce US power and influence), they skipped the Islamist part of his persona.
I’m not saying he believes in anything but the religion of Obama. But he believes in anything that supports that religion, and since hatred of the US, the West, Christianity, Judaism, their intellectual culture and all their principles is the key to both Islam and Obama, he has clearly decided this is where his loyalties lie. And he has picked the wealthiest and most aggressive version of Islam - and also the one of his childhood in Indonesia.
The islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood are the Saudis useful idiots. The Saudis will not let them come to power in Syria just like they couldn’t let them run Egypt. The war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is a proxy war between the USA and Russia. Russia is even more our enemy now than during the Cold War.
Ex-Muslim, Daniel Greenfield has written an extremely accurate article about what’s going on with the Muslim Jihadist’s in Syria.
The Syrian Civil War is a religious war. It’s not a war over democracy or freedom. It’s a conflict between two totalitarian systems, one loosely based on a mixture of Islam and Socialism, and the other more rigidly based on Islam. Both are brutal and merciless to anyone who doesn’t belong. Both have their death squads and extensive corruption on the inside.
Both are evil.
It’s also an ethnic conflict being played out between Iran and the Arab world. And it even has elements of Ottoman revivalism on the Turkish side of the border where its Islamist rulers dream of reclaiming an empire.
None of that is a recipe for moderation. There are no moderates in a religious war. There are no moderates in an ethnic conflict. There are no moderates among those who would start such a war or those who intend to finish it.
Neither side is seeking freedom. Both are seeking absolute supremacy.
The Syrian opposition that we hear about on the evening news.....MORE HERE:
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/there-are-no-moderate-syrian-rebels/#disqus_thread