Locations: Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq. Players: Siniora, Maliki, Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad, Assad.
Terrorists Organizations: Hizbullah, al-Qaeda.
A fairy Tale from Wake up America.
Once upon a time there was a region of the world that was literally up in arms. The Middle East.
In the country Lebanon the Prime Minister, Fuad Siniora is a Sunni that is dealing with protests from hundreds of thousands of predominantly Shiite demonstrators, encouraged by Nasrallah, the head of Hizbullah, the puppet of Syria led by Assad and Iran led by Ahmadinejad.
In Iraq we have Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, he is a Shi'a Muslim. Iraq is suffering massive sectarian violence as well as influences from Iran and al-Qaeda deliberately fueling the fires between the Sunnis and the Shiites to create a civil war.
(NOTE: A suspected al Qaeda operative's urging of starting a religious civil war in Iraq indicates that terrorists are increasingly uneasy over pro-coalition developments in that country, senior U.S. officials said in Baghdad today.
Commenting on an article that appeared in today's New York Times, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, acknowledged to reporters that coalition forces had intercepted a courier and confiscated a letter written by Abu Musab al Zarquwi, a known terrorist with suspected links to al Qaeda.
The author of the 17-page letter writes about conducting 25 anti-coalition operations since being in Iraq, Kimmitt said, but the tone of the letter indicates that the terrorist "is disappointed in his lack of success." The letter urges terrorists to attack Shiite Muslims in Iraq, in an apparent attempt to precipitate religious civil war, said Dan Senor, senior spokesman of the Coalition Provisional Authority, who accompanied Kimmitt at the press briefing.)
Iraq and Lebanon are two countries in the Middle East trying to fight to be democratic countries. Young democracies both and both having to fight tooth and nail to maintain those democracies.
There is the background for The Tale of Two Countries.
Now, since the Iraq PM is a Shiite and the Sunnis, if an actual civil war was to complete itself would be the only group that could be wiped out totally.
Both the Sunni insurgents and the Shiite death squads are to blame for the current bloodshed in Iraq. But while both sides share responsibility, Iraqi Shiites don't run the risk of being exterminated in a civil war, which the Sunnis clearly do.
Consider this: In Iraq- (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%)
The Sunni's are literally fighting for their lives in Iraq from the Shiites.
The Lebanon PM is Sunni and his strife is coming from predominantly pro-syrian shiites led by pro-syrian Hizbullah, puppet of Syria/Iran.
The answer.
It is extreme, possibly not even plausible, but in a perfect world none of this would be going on. Perhaps extreme measures should be considered.
Fuad Siniora, the Sunni PM from Lebanon, with the help of the Saudi's, should open the door to the Sunni's from Iraq, give them a country where they do not have to worry about their extinction, to live in, to help govern, to find peace without sectarian factions trying to kill each other.
Nouri Kamel al-Maliki, the Shiite PM from Iraq should open the door for the Shiite in Lebanon, give them a home, a place to find peace without sectarian factions trying to kill each other.
Where would that leave Syria, Iran and the terrorists groups, Hizbullah and al-Qaeda?
Syria/Iran/Hizbullah would no longer have any leverage in Lebanon, because it is harder to turn Sunni's against Sunni's in the same way they can encourage Shiites to do.
Iran/al-Qaeda would also have no leverage in Iraq if there were no Sunni's to feel so desperate that they needed to fight the Shiite for their very lives.
Bottomline is if the Sunni's and Shiiite's in Iraq and Lebanon cannot coexist then they should not BE in the same countries. Separate them. With the help of the Saudi's there could be a major transition in the Middle East, one that would bring about a time of peace, the young democracies of Lebanon and Iraq would not be in danger, the countries would both be stabilized and our American Troops could be brought home well before 2008 in triumph, not defeat.
We also would not have to deal with Iran and the lunatic that runs that country, because as I asked before, would YOU deal with Hitler?
Extreme times call for extreme measures. Give the Sunni's a country where they feel they belong. Give the Shiites a country where they feel the same. Take the power to create chaos in the Middle East away from Iran/Syria and Hizbullah and al-Qaeda.
They all lived happily ever after.
A fairy tale to be sure, but one that perhaps if the proper groups got together, could actually bring about a little calm in the Middle East. Nothing else has worked.
Other Middle East News today:
Washington Times.
Power Line.
TigerHawk.
Prairie Pundit.
Jules Crittenden.
Open Trackback Weekened.
Other open trackbacks:
Linkfest Haven.
Woman Honor Thyself.
Conservative Cat.
The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns.
Stuck on Stupid.
The Hill Chronicles.
Moosetrack open Trackbacks.
Blue Star Chronicles.
Dumb Ox News.
The Uncooperative Blogger.
Adam's Blog.
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