{"id":36178,"date":"2013-06-12T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36178"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:44:09","slug":"the-only-winner-in-syria-is-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36178","title":{"rendered":"The only winner in Syria is Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> speculates today that the only victor emerging in the Middle East wars is Iran;<\/p>\n

But after the Assad regime\u2019s capture of the small but strategic town of Qusair last week \u2014 a battle in which the Iranian-backed Shiite militia played a pivotal role \u2014 Iran\u2019s supporters and foes alike are mulling a new reality: that the regional balance of power appears to be tilting in favor of Tehran, with potentially profound implications for a Middle East still grappling with the upheaval wrought by the Arab Spring revolts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an Iranian fight. It is no longer a Syrian one,\u201d said Mustafa Alani, director of security and defense at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Council. \u201cThe issue is hegemony in the region.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, sure they are. Since 1979, the US, through six administrations, has been unwilling to face off with the mullahs. Our exit from Iraq should have happened in 2003 and the route should have been through the streets of Tehran. After 2003, our fight in Iraq was with Iran, or it’s agents. Our fight in Afghanistan is with Pakistani Taliban and Haqqani trained and equipped by Iran.<\/p>\n

And now, the fight in Syria is between the rebels and Iran-backed Hezbollah. We’re more interested in having Europe do that thing they call “leading” which is really nothing more than public masturbation just like we’ve done with Iran’s nuclear program (remember that?). Nothing gets accomplished in the world without US leadership, because the rest of the world is accustomed to diddling around until we do something. But since we’ve abrogated our leadership, the world gets worse. If it was up to Europe, Hussein would still be threatening his neighbors and his people would still be starving as a result of the “sanctions” – the same kind of sanctions we’ve placed on Iran, which unsurprisingly, aren’t work there either. <\/p>\n

Oh did you read yesterday how the shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles that we gave the Libyans to fight Qaddafi are somewhere with al Qaeda in Mali <\/a>now? But, yeah, let’s send some more arms to the Syrians like the Euro-twats want.<\/p>\n

We screwed this up long ago, but that’s not a excuse to continue to screw it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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