
Why, when Iranian troops crossed the Iraqi border earlier this month to take possession of an Iraqi oil well and raise the Iranian flag, didn’t American forces do something?
That’s the question in the minds of people across the Middle East, and it’s promoting a common Arab conception: that the United States and Persian Iran have been cooperating with one another all along – at the expense of Arabs – and the crisis involving Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen only feeds this suspicion.
For Saudi Arabia’s Al Mokhtasar, columnist Dr. Nasir Al Umar writes with obvious exasperation:
It seems that in order to steal more of its oil, the fictitious “Mahdi” decided to emerge from his maze of lies and underground tunnels of faith to plant his heavy feet on Iraq’s wounded ground. It’s a situation that mixes irony and tragedy in equal measure, with the original invaders, the Crusader American military, playing the role of deaf, dumb and blind. Neither its public statements nor its domestic intelligence services saw the obvious Iranian occupation. Somehow, America’s aircraft, which have complete control of Iraq’s skies, can’t spot an armed invasion in the middle of the day.
Uncle Sam only mentioned the invasion after it was exposed by the international media. The invading Crusader continued with his suspicious, cold-blooded talk, and mentioned his “concern” about Iranian “movements”!! With unbounded theatrical grotesqueness, an American official went on to say that the event was an internal matter!! Truly, according to psychiatry, Freudian slips reveal the secrets of the innermost mind. In this case, we have the original invader admitting to the nearly-official hegemony of his supposed enemy. Since when was an invasion by a foreign country an “internal matter?”
If you wish to overlook the wisdom of the foregoing, one might ponder the Security Agreement that the Americans imposed on their followers in Baghdad. This agreement requires the invading Americans to protect the borders, territories, air space and territorial waters of Iraq from any aggression!! How did the agreement evaporate after preoccupying us all for two full years?
By Dr. Nasir Al Umar
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
December 22, 2009
Saudi Arabia – Al Mokhtasar – Original Article (Arabic)
Iranian soldiers have invaded Iraqi territory in broad daylight and occupied the Al Fakkah oil field near the city of Al Amarra. Intelligence infiltration and the blind dependency of those with funny titles in the Green Zone [Iraq officials] on the Mullahs of Qom is no longer enough for the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists [Iran].
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The REAL question is; What will YOU do Saudi? Hire the Pakistanis to do your fighting for you? Coward religious jackass.
Very interesting article, including editor's remarks, that shows us some of the complexity of the middle east.
In some respects, we have come full circle in that by some, we are now vilified for NOT interfering enough.
Remember the accusations of pax americana and our fingers in everyone's business, etc, etc?
It ain't stupid, simple.
Doesn't Iraq have an army? (scratches head) Seems we paid to train and equip one.
If they want the oil well back, they can take it with us backing them up. Why should America go charging in for first blood? Contrary to the lies and propaganda this was never about Warfer Oil.
The article is an interesting one and kudos to Kern for posting it. But it is also absurd. Somebody is always going to attack America no matter what we do or don't do. It's part of being the best.
Or the worst…depending on your point of view…
I think Canada is tops. Yet no one is invading them or targeting their citizens on a global scale. Why is that? Could be because they aren't out stealing oil.
As to Iraq, the entire time Bush/Cheney were there Iran was sitting by grinning that the destablizing of that country was being done for them. Hardly had to shell a penny. Invading Iraq and destablizing it was one of the dumbest things we have ever done. Cheneyco. gambled and put us in the poorhouse with their bad bet. Now we couldn't maintain the region if we had to. The thing is to support a military you need revenue from a large and prosperous middle class. Our middle class is becoming unemployed, homeless and dying from lack of simple affordable medical care. The financial well is drying up thanks to a shortsided and myopic plan hatched by our beloved oil pirates.
GOP= Grifting Oil Pirates
Greed always bites the hand that feeds it. Cheneyco made the fatal error of believing that people in the United States would not only fight and die for its hostile takeover of Iraq, but that we would also gladly and willingly become jobless, sick and homeless for that “noble” cause of making the rich richer as well. The French Revolution saw King Louis engage in foolish and expensive wars at the demise of his middle class and ignored their plights, endlessly demanding more. We saw what happened with that stroke of genius.
Oh screw it.
Just nuke the entire world and kill everybody. We'll find if there is a god or not and who’s religion is the true religion.
Please FT, what would we do with out you.
We can “attempt” to aim this at the US if you want to. OR we can go ahead and examine the truth.
“the Crusader American military, playing the role of deaf, dumb and blind.”????
This is simply a case of Iran testing the waters with America (and to a lesser degree, Iraq).
American Military standing on the sidelines (apparently, but not actually), was America testing the Iraqi military to see if they are self-sufficient and if the training has been effective.
If things would have gone badly for the Iraqi Army, we were totally prepared to take them down hard.
However, there was no need. The Iraqi Army performed extremely well, and repelled the Iranians back into Iran.
The question is…… Why are we questioning this?
JD, can you give a link on the Iraqi Army repulsing the Iranians? A quick Google search turned up nothing.
“JD, can you give a link on the Iraqi Army repulsing the Iranians?”
I got it from the WSJ online. It stated that there was “gunfire exchanged” and the Iranians withdrew. That was enough to call it a repelling. Iranians still held one well but the other three were “liberated”. It seems that horizontal drilling by the Iranians is at the core of the issue.