{"id":32558,"date":"2012-10-25T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32558"},"modified":"2012-10-25T07:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:52:01","slug":"the-widening-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32558","title":{"rendered":"The widening crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, we talked about a plot in Jordan that was thwarted when native Jordanians were arrested after bringing both conventional and chemical weapons into Jordan from Syria in order to spread terror there. Today the Washington Times<\/a> reports that anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr\u2019s Mahdi Army militia has sent about 200 members to Syria in order to protect Shi’ite shrines, threatening to turn the civil war into a religious battle; <\/p>\n

An official in the Badr organization, a conservative Shiite bloc that is part of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki\u2019s ruling coalition, said Shiite militant groups have acquired new advanced and heavy weapons and were gearing up for a fierce reaction if the Zainab shrine were hit. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.<\/p>\n

A Shiite militant who described himself as a member of the anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr\u2019s Mahdi Army militia said about 200 Iraqi fighters drawn from the ranks of various Shiite militias, including Asaib Ahl al-Haq and the Hezbollah Brigades, have made their way to Syria in order to protect shrines there.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s Iran-backed Hezbollah militia is also believed to be sending fighters to help the Assad regime, which is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Guardian<\/a> reports that Turkey is calling on the US and UK to intervene in Syria in order to preclude a widening humanitarian crisis that threatens Turkey’s own security. <\/p>\n

“How long can this situation continue? I mean in Bosnia, now we have Ban Ki-moon [the UN secretary general] apologizing 20 years after. Who will apologize for Syria in 20 years’ time? How can we stay idle?” Davutoglu told the Guardian in an exclusive interview in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

“We [Turkey] are doing all we can to help these people, using all diplomatic capacity to stop this bloodshed. But there should be a much more concerted effort by the international community. The best way we can see now is direct humanitarian intervention.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So where are the Europeans? Obviously, the US can’t police the whole world, and Lord knows we’ve heard the Euro-wienies complain that the US does just that, but when it’s their turn to step up, NATO and the European community never does until the US commits our dwindling resources.<\/p>\n

Turkey can go pound sand as far as I’m concerned since they left the 4th Division floating off their coast and wouldn’t let through Turkey to Iraq in 2003, and now they want us to commit our blood and treasure to their crisis? F- them.<\/p>\n

But this is typical of what happens in the world without US leadership, the leadership that Obama went around the region apologizing for in 2009. I can’t wait until Romney is president and the entire Left will be demanding that he take action in Syria after their guy watched 32,000 people die there and watched the whole region collapse into crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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