RETHINKING THE SECRET AGREEMENT TO WITHDRAW, THE DANSE-A-TROIS, AND FOSTERING ISLAMISM IN PALESTINE.

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Okay, so there may not be a specific secret agreement to withdraw and concede the role Iran and Syria possess and play in Iraq. (See prior post.) Instead, there’s a danse-a-trois among the harmful idiots, Iran, and Syria. Pouring oil into the fire, the apple of the harmful idiots’ eye joined the dance on Thursday morning by dispatching its American high tech flying wonders to buzz northeastern Syria. Perhaps a message; perhaps to unravel the code(s) to Syria’s air defenses; likely an act of desperation to shore up the spirit of the Israeli population, now in a state of pessimism about the future. Likely, too, a message from Turkey to Syria to rattle it on behalf of the harmful idiots.

Perhaps the harmful idiots had provided hints to the Iranians that they would be drawing down the number of troops on a schedule faster than that revealed publicly by U.S. commanders. Perhaps they did that as a ruse to get through the expected report by General Petraeus. Hinting to the Iranians would mean that these would order their proxies within the Iraqi resistance (those still not in U.S.-run prisons) to take it easy on U.S. troops. Which, for the harmful idiots, would achieve their goal -- a breather domestically. They now can show “success” and a light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel. This illusion of success should persuade the democrats and some republicans to ease up on the administration. The harmful idiots would have a new mandate as a result. With the new mandate, they would once again turn to subduing the country and turn it into a pliant protectorate. They would, in addition, squeeze Iran and Syria out of that protectorate, as they did the Russians and other junior imperial Europeans when they had invaded. They would, of course, for a generation, not release a substantial number of tens of thousands of young men in their prisons, as befit a colonialist power which sponsors another -- Israel. Iraqi and Palestinian young men would have to wait for history to take its course to see freedom. And that can take generations.

Oops. The Iranians catch on to this surreal ruse by the harmful idiots. It helped the Iranians see through the ruse that the harmful idiots, losing less troops, began prematurely to celebrate a new lease on extending their occupationof Iraq. Success, albeit illusory, is infectious. Their fearless leader visits the Anbar and behaves as if he had achieved final victory, his memory of recent American losses -–if he has a memory at all-- having faded. He’s happy, even strangely giddy. But about the same time, maybe a day or so later, on or about September 4, Iranian deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqji, made a sobering comment. He had dismissed the possibility of holding yet another meeting with the harmful idiots to coordinate security in Iraq. But not fully. The decision, he said, hadn’t been made. But he did threaten that Iran would cancel the next round of talks, mainly because of what he considered U.S. escalation in Iraq. Read differently, U.S. escalation should beget Iranian, and likely a green light to Iran’s proxies within the Iraqi resistance to resume draining us. To the Iranians, the hints of early withdrawal turned out to be a surreal ruse by the harmful idiots. These aimed to buy time to get a new lease for a longer occupation and the theft of the Iraqi Shia establishment away from Iran.

(Note: I find it tragically hilarious that the harmful idiots are arming the Arab Sunni clans and tribes to stand up to al-Qaeda and, eventually, to the Shia. Hilarious because you can rest assured that these tribes will use the weapons against all, especially each other. Saddam Hussein and his Baath party had worked very hard to defuse that destructive force called the tribes -- destructive to the unity of the nation. The new colonialists are now reviving it as part of their divide-and-conquer colonialist strategy. The harmful idiots will leave Iraq. But the tribes, armed, have no place to go. The arms they received should make the upcoming Iraqi civil wars that much more violent.)

LINKAGE AND THE DANCE

The dance: Iran’s deputy foreign minister utters words and U.S. soldiers die in Iraq. The harmful idiots dispatch the air force of the apple of their eye to issue a warning to Syria. The same favored protectorate squeezes Gaza and kills more Palestinian nationalists/Islamists. And more U.S. troops die in Iraq.

This newsletter had repeatedly warned that the harmful idiots should desist from thinking that they can isolate issues in the Middle East. Linkage is real, especially now that the harmful idiots have 170,000 troops in the heart of the Arab World. Iraq links to Palestine, to Lebanon, to Yemen, to Bahrain, and, sooner or later, to Kuwait and possibly Saudi Arabia. Only in the harmful idiots’ tiny brains is Iraq an isolated issue. Or, more precisely, that they and the apple of their eye can go on the offensive here without U.S. troops or the proxies of the harmful idiots paying a price there.


YET AGAIN: THE HARMFUL IDIOTS FOSTER ISLAMISM, AND (POSSIBLY) A NEW GENERATION OF YOUNG ANTI-WESTERN TERROR RECRUITS.

In their attempt to take on issues in isolation, un-linked, the harmful idiots and the apple of their eye are egging on their new agent in Palestine -–Fatah-- to do war with Islamic Hamas on Hamas's own religious Islamic turf. One tool being used by Fatah: calls for prayer gatherings in the open to dislodge Hamas in Gaza. What’s wrong with this?

This use of religion by an otherwise (somewhat) secular agent of the harmful idiots (Fatah), shifts that organization’s political discourse from secular to Islamic. In time, the Fatah Islamic discourse should swallow Fatah itself and turn it into an Islamist force. How? It starts by youth being drawn to Fatah’s Islamic discourse, and to cargo/salaries, a gorgeous mix. (Watch the harmful idiots bring the recruits here for training!) The same youth, confirmed Islamist, half-a-generation from the present, should gobble up secular Fatah and displace the aged Abbas generation. The end result: a new and improved Fatah, now Islamist, to the left of Hamas. The national discourse would have changed as a result. The challenger to the new Islamist Fatah is likely to be...you guessed it, yet a more radical Islamist opposition. (I would allow for a scenario of a secular opposition rising again; but, in view of the population explosion, Israel’s ceaseless quest to colonize and dominate, and the Israeli prototype of the religiously-exclusive state/ghetto -- Islamism is what we will likely have, government and opposition.)