There are a few irritating – and incongruous – ripples in the Middle East-USA mutual passion
The Saudis, for example, blame Obama for allowing Egypt’s decadent Hosni Mubarak to be overthrown. They blame the Americans for supporting the elected Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi as president – elections not being terribly popular in the Gulf – and the Saudis are now throwing cash at Egypt’s new military regime. Assad in Damascus also offered his congratulations to the Egyptian military. Was the Egyptian army not, after all – like Assad himself – trying to prevent religious extremists from taking power?
Fair enough – providing we remember that the Saudis are really supporting the Egyptian Salafists who cynically gave their loyalty to the Egyptian military, and that Saudi-financed Salafists are among the fiercest opponents of Assad.
Thankfully for USA Secretary for State and his European mates,
the absence of any institutional memory in the State Department, Foreign Office
or Quai d’Orsay means that no one need remember that 15 of the 19 mass-killers
of 9/11 were also Salafists and
– let us above all, please God, forget this – were all Sunni citizens of Saudi Arabia.
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