{"id":20239,"date":"2013-08-25T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20239"},"modified":"2013-08-25T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T21:04:12","slug":"the-real-war-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20239","title":{"rendered":"The Real War In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Ledeen<\/a> posted an article at PJMedia<\/a> today about the Syrian civil war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ledeen reminds us of the history of the war in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We invaded Iraq in the name of the War Against Terror<\/a>, which President George W. Bush<\/a> defined as a war against terrorist organizations and the states that supported them.\u00a0 That should have made Iran the focus of our strategy, since Tehran was (and still is, now more than ever) the world\u2019s leading sponsor of terrorism.\u00a0 Nothing would have so devastated the jihadis as the fall of the Iranian regime<\/a>, which\u2013then as now\u2013funded, trained, armed and gave sanctuary to terrorist groups from al-Qaeda<\/a> and Hezbollah to Islamic Jihad and Hamas.\u00a0 Unless we defeated Iran, it would not be possible for Iraq to have decent security, no matter how total the defeat of Saddam and the Baathists, and how well-intentioned the successor government.\u00a0 As you can plainly see.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Ledeen points out that we have again arrived at the same place.<\/p>\n

He further explains:<\/p>\n

So, as in Iraq, if you want to win this battle in the terror war (Syria), you must defeat the Iranian regime.\u00a0 And, as in the early years of this bloody century, you can do it without dropping bombs or sending Americans<\/a> to fight on the ground, because the overwhelming majority of Iranians want to rid themselves of Khamenei and Rouhani and all the rest of their tyrannical oppressors.\u00a0 They can do it, with a bit of political, technological and economic support.\u00a0 They could have done it in 2003, when they were on the verge of declaring a general strike against the regime.\u00a0 Colin Powell<\/a> and W abandoned them, and it never happened.\u00a0 They could have done it in 2009, when millions of them took to the streets in demonstrations larger than those that led to the downfall of the shah.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton and O abandoned them, and a brutal repression ensued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We keep trying to take down the tree by only removing its branches because they are easier to chop off. Well, they are not really easier to chop off, and we are never getting to the root of the problem. Unless our Middle East policy drastically changes, we will be fighting the Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> there for the next fifty years or more.<\/p>\n

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