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fadedrose

(10,044 posts) Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:54 PM Mar 2015

Saudi Arabia & Iran & Yemen & Iraq

We are helping the Saudis fight Yemen by giving them information we spied on to help them fight ISIS & AlQuida - and Iran.

We are helping Iran's ground forces fight the insurgents in Iraq with US dropping bombs to help Iran take Tikrik.

Who are the Saudi's fighting in Yemen, I mean, mainly?

Who are the Iranians fighting in Iraq?

Doesn't Syria feel left out.

Lemme see, Sunnis - that would be Saudi Arabia.

S'hia - that would be Iran, and Syria.

Regarding Iran, is it ethical to be both fighting with them and helping the Saudi's fight against them.

Who all are fighting ISIS and AlQuida?

Am going to bed because my head is spinning. Will look to see tomorrow am if anybody has it figured out.

Thanks, and a Happy WWIII to all of us...

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Saudi Arabia & Iran & Yemen & Iraq (Original Post) fadedrose Mar 2015 OP

it all goes back to Sunni v Shia JI7 Mar 2015 #1

Which goes back to Saudi Arabia. Scootaloo Mar 2015 #2

I think that's a bit too facile. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #8

kind of like a very deadly and very costly and very dangerous game of spin the bottle. NRaleighLiberal Mar 2015 #3

The question is: who's putting up the money to keep it all going ? jaysunb Mar 2015 #4

The Bush Family. glinda Mar 2015 #5

The Bush gang are "facilitators" in a much larger cabal. n/t jaysunb Mar 2015 #6

yes glinda Mar 2015 #10

while they may exploit for their own gains, the problems are deeper than that JI7 Mar 2015 #7

Here is a good article about it. peoli Mar 2015 #9

Good read. glinda Mar 2015 #11

JI7

(89,244 posts)

1. it all goes back to Sunni v Shia

Reply to fadedrose (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:55 PM

Mar 2015

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)

2. Which goes back to Saudi Arabia.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 11:58 PM

Mar 2015

The crux of the fight this time is Saudi Arabia's export of radical, violently anti-Shia Wahabbist Islam. These guys are essentially nazis on a budget, with the rhetoric and beliefs they espouse.

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

8. I think that's a bit too facile.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 26, 2015, 12:24 AM

Mar 2015

As one poster above noted, there is a veritable hate factory churning in Saudi Arabia, and they're exporting their extremist Wahhabi doctrine around the region.

Sunnis and Shias aren't doomed to be at eternal war any more than Protestants and Catholics are.

And sectarian distinctions are often a cover for other, more mundane divisions, tribal, ethnic, etc.

In Yemen, while the Houthis are predominantly Shia, that's not what they claim to be about. They say they're about creating a better governed Yemen for everybody.