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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Carnegie Endowment's "foreign policy analyst" taqiyyahs by omission


Deliberate omission of  an important fact  is to be considered as lying through one's teeth.  

Sad to say,  it's not just the followers of the cult of islam loading us with taqqiyah.  There are many others gleefully carrying water for Saudi Arabia. Saddest part is that the decision makers in our government listen to these analysts and think the analysts are above board and have no motivation for stating anything but  the truth.  

Check the paragraph I have highlighted below.  Did you notice anything?  The analyst wants to tell us ever so subtly that Saudi Arabia does not  tolerate Al Qaeda and neither do they like the Muslim Brotherhood .... they are the good guys ...just like us folks.  What he omits to tell us is the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood has many, many fronts.  The Muslim Brotherhood segment (along with their foot soldiers, Al Qaeda and affiliates) that is  actually hated by the sheikhdoms is the segment that is made up largely of either Saudis, Bahrainis, Kuwaitis, Emiratis with a sprnkling of other Sunni Muslim nationalities.  This segment of the Muslim Brotherhood wants to do away with the sheikhs ... so naturally they are the enemy.   However, at the same time,  these same sheikhs have not stopped funding other segments of the MB and neither have they stopped funding and arming the foot soldiers under the command of the segments that they favor.  A person who was not trying to pull wool over your eyes would not leave out that fact. 

I posted a comment at the article, but of course it was not published. When lies are exposed they are not welcomed by the liars and their facilitators.

Frederic Wehrey writing at Carnegie:
...These are troubling and uncertain times for Saudi diplomacy.  A string of regional upsets and friction with the United States has cast the kingdom into rocky, uncharted waters. Washington’s support of the Islamist government in Egypt and its response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria elicited outrage and accusations of U.S. unreliability and even betrayal from Riyadh. Then came the slight warming in U.S.-Iranian relations—highlighted by the unprecedented phone call between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. That mild rapprochement brought to the fore an old specter: an U.S.-Iranian breakthrough that marginalizes the Gulf states and erodes their long-standing position as beneficiaries of U.S.-Iranian hostility.

On the editorial pages of Saudi newspapers, columnists have sounded familiar themes with new levels of intensity: The Gulf is being shut out of regional negotiations. The United States was duped on Syria and Iran. The Gulf needs to adopt a more muscular, unilateral approach to safeguard its own interests, and it should cultivate new security patrons to compensate for U.S. capriciousness, perfidy, and retreat from the region.

But what does this latest round of hand-wringing, protest, and introspection really mean in terms of new directions in Saudi foreign policy?
If history is any guide, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf more generally, will continue to pursue policies that align with the broad contours of U.S. strategy—but with a creeping preference for hedging and unilateralism that will, in some cases, clash with U.S. interests. It is in the Gulf’s domestic landscape that the sharpest breaks between Saudi and U.S. views are emerging: regional tensions have enabled a harsh security campaign against a wide range of dissidents, the rise of sectarianism, and the troubling use of censorship........

.........On top of the Egypt debacle, Obama’s decision not to take military action against Syria and the U.S. administration’s acceptance of a Russian-backed deal to dismantle the country’s chemical weapons stockpiles further shook Saudi policy.

Riyadh has been backing the Syrian opposition with the intent of toppling the Assad regime, eroding the power of the Syrian Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, and clipping Iran’s influence in the Levant. Working with Turkey and Jordan to provide funds and weapons to its favored rebels, Saudi Arabia recently gained an edge over its competitor, Qatar, which had been backing Brotherhood factions in the opposition. Riyadh has also tried to strike a blow against al-Qaeda-allied factions by sponsoring the creation of a new Syrian Salafi umbrella grouping, the so-called Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam). In a parallel track, Riyadh is backing secular-oriented strongmen in Syria who would preserve the Syrian security bureaucracy but would eliminate the inner circle of President Bashar al-Assad and marginalize the Syrian Brotherhood.......

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