HOW TO KEEP THE HARMFUL IDIOTS IN IRAQ: A PAGE OUT OF THE PLAY BOOK OF SAUDI INTELLIGENCE?

rough second and short draft.

I'm the longing of the poets
[Their] alienation
... The music of what they've composed
And [that of] their prose

Sung by Fairuz, "Baghdad and the Poets" (I don't know who authored the song/poem) (My translation.)

[Caveats:

1. There are plenty of reasons for the Sunni resistance (“al-Qaeda in Iraq”) to be infuriated with the Shia state in Iraq, not the least of which is the torture by that state of Sunni resistance fighters and their hanging in a basement in a building in Baghdad. (Robert Fisk recently has reported on that.)

2. Out of necessity: what follows packs lots of speculation. Since my training was mostly in the Lebanese civil war, I'm comfortable with that speculation and believe it hits the mark most of the time. ]

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It just hit me why Saudi intelligence likely is funding al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The wholesale suicide and car bombing assaults on the Shia civilians is likely what Saudi intelligence is after, not the other acts of resistance – e.g., going after Sunni recruits of the Shia state’s police.

Why?

To beget a backlash from the Shias against the Sunnis.

Why?

To get the Sunnis -- at least the ones in Baghdad -- so scared of the Shias that they would cling to the harmful idiots for protection.

Why?

Because the harmful idiots would then have a case to present to the world, to the American public, but most importantly to the Arab (read “Sunni,” in accordance with the attempts at dividing that public by the Saudi ruling elite) Street. The case would be about why they’d need to stay in Iraq and have permanent bases. It'll be about the "need" to "protect” the Arab Sunnis. Never mind that the Saudi ruling elite, the instigator of this harmful scheme, is using and screwing (yet again) the Arab Sunnis of Iraq so that the harmful idiots can protect them! So that the harmful idiots can stay in Iraq in accordance with their own harmful idiocy (they like getting bogged down; it creates jobs) and the wishes of the Saudi ruling elite (and the Israelis and the Kuwaitis and the Jordanian ruling elite.)

Why?

Because the Saudi ruling elite doesn’t want us to leave lest Iran completes its take-over of Iraq. If Iran does, so fears the Saudii ruling elite, then the Shias of Saudi Arabia would be strengthened and may succeed at putting together a populist alliance and/or political coalitions with other sectors of the Saudi population.

Why?

Because if we withdraw, even the mainstream Iraqi Arab Sunnis would flock to Iran.

Who says?

I say. Look at the Lebanese Christian politician Michel Aoun, leader of the most pro-American and pro-Western community in the East. He’s visiting Tehran. Who would’ve said!

Why is he doing this, the bastard?

Because the harmful idiots had given the Christians of Lebanon the historic screw when they had struck a deal with Syria. They needed Syria to give U.S. troops an “Arab cover” as U.S. troops were “liberating” Kuwait. (Which Saddam Hussein had invaded, having fallen for a trap set up by the harmful idiots and Kuwaiti intelligence. Do ask the then Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington whose daughter helped entrap the U.S. Congress, claiming she had been a nurse at a Kuwaiti hospital. Can't any reporter tell us whatever happened to that "nurse" and to her father? Oh well... the harmful idiots entrap the Iraqi Arab army into invading Kuwait, then the harmful idiots liberate Kuwait. The goal has always been total domination of Iraq itself. Good luck with that.)

So?

So, in exchange for Syria’s “Arab cover” to Bush senior’s “liberation” of Kuwait (which, again, would’ve been unnecessary but for the harmful idiots and Kuwaiti intelligence having set up Saddam Hussein, the Arab they hanged), the harmful idiots (and their beloved, of course) allowed Syrian troops to conquer Christian Mount Lebanon.

So?

So, if Michel Aoun and his pro-Western and pro-American community have learned that the harmful idiots would sell you for a nickel, why wouldn’t the Arab Sunnis of Iraq? Darn: Haven't the harmful idiots and Israel’s American right wing diaspora just given them the historic screw?

Strange?! We’re forward-looking people. In that, we're forever the innocent. Why can’t the Arab Sunnis be like us -- innocent? After all, we love them and we’ll be glad to protect them in exchange for permanent bases.


Because smart people have a memory, unlike idiots who are harmful and self-referential. And no one has screwed the Arabs of Iraq, the Arabs, all, and most particularly the Sunnis of Arab Iraq, in the last one hundred years more thoroughly than --

1. The British ( Palestine);

2. the harmful idiots (Iraq and Israel/Palestine) and

2. Israel’s right-wing diaspora in the land of the harmful idiots (Israel/Palestine and Iraq.)


So?

So the Arab Sunnis cannot and will not trust the harmful idiots. Come what may. Because the harmful idiots will not and cannot re-unite their country for them, a country of which they’re proud. Just as Aoun and the Lebanese Christians rally around the office of the Maronite presidency, and do what it takes to strengthen that office (vis-a-vis the office of the Sunni Prime Minister), including playing up to Iran, so will the Iraqi Arab Sunnis rally, but around what comes natural to them.

Rally around a presidency? We the harmful idiots don’t get it.


And no one expects you to. The Arab Sunnis of Iraq will rally around the call to re-unite their country -- whatever the hue of that call -- not confederation, not sectarianism, not consociational bullshit. They’ll be waiting for the opportunity to achieve that unity, come what may. It’ll be a long, arduous, and turbulent road, but they won’t stop until they get there. Even if it means an Iraq that’s allied to Iran. If that’s what it’d take (remember the Lebanese Christians), then that’s what it’d take.

Each generation will should hold that goal dearer and dearer.