Friday, March 27, 2015

Everyone's An Ally. (Except Israel.)

Everyone's An Ally. (Except Israel.) :: SteynOnline
The other big story of the day was the Sunni Arabs' decision to intervene in the chaos in Yemen:
HUGH HEWITT: al-Sisi, the president of the Egypt, whom our president does not much like, has decided with the new king of Saudi Arabia that they're not waiting around for their American pals. They're going to go stop the Shia, the Iranian-backed Shia in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, who's pretty good on this stuff, writes, "Negotiating with the Iranians in Switzerland, bombing their allies in Yemen, bombing their enemies in Syria and Iraq. Makes sense." We are, actually, Mark Steyn, in an incoherent, cataclysmic, incoherent moment.

MS: Yes, it's very weird. At the moment, we just started lending air support to our allies, the Iranians, in the fight to take back Tikrit in Iraq. That operation is being directed by an Iranian general, and the United States Air Force is basically serving as Iran's air force for the purposes of that operation. Meanwhile, down south in Yemen, we're providing support to our other allies, the Saudis, as they go into Yemen to take on the allies of our first allies, the Iranians.
But to the President it all makes sense because it's all Israel's fault:
MS: The entire region is aflame now from West Africa to the Hindu Kush. Four capitals are currently controlled by Tehran. We don't know how many capital cities will be controlled by them by the end. And other states have completely imploded, like Libya, and meanwhile all these various franchises of the jihad are all bulked up and getting along fine. And the idiocy of this administration is that somehow, they think this would all go away if Israel would stop building settlements.

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