Sunday, June 15, 2014

If only they had asked us?

Why is the Netherlands team allowed to beat up opponents? Have the referees been told to be soft on them? In 2010 they fouled their way to the final and lost to Spain after De Jong, who belongs in a prison and not on a football field, planted a boot on Xabi Alonso's chest. He did not receive even a yellow card. Van Persie should have received at least 3 straight reds through the tournament but got nothing. In the game against Spain, couple of days back, they were deliberately stamping on the feet of the Spanish players, lunging in with studs up and elbowing them in their faces but not one red card. From red cards to red faces.
Seems that the US is going to ask Iran to support the Shia government in Baghdad in the face of the rampaging hordes of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. With so many top universities and so many think-tanks, staffed by the best students from these universities, the ignorance of the US government is breathtaking. The removal of Saddam Hussein based on lies about WMDs was stupid. Sunnis and Shias are permanent enemies so once the Shias gained power they were going to take revenge for the humiliation that the Sunni Saddam had inflicted on them for decades. It was the turn of the Sunnis to feel aggrieved. In Syria the opposite prevailed where the minority Alawis, a Shia sect, was ruling the majority Sunnis. When Ben Ali of Tunisia fell, followed by Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, the Sunnis started protesting in Syria. Afraid of being swept away Assad reacted brutally, supported by Iran and the Hezbollah. Not having any clue about the ancient hatreds that drive the middle-east western powers, especially ladyboy David Cameron, were itching to bomb Assad's army. However, having lied about protecting civilians in Libya to kill Gaddafi they could not get any support from Russia and China in the UN Security Council who continued to veto every proposal. It will not be enough to bomb ISIS in Iraq, they have to be eliminated from Syria as well but that will hand an easy victory to Assad. The ISIS is so fanatical that even Al Qaeda keeps its distance. If the Iranian army enters Iraq it could go straight into Syria. Militarily the Sunni Gulf states are no match for the Iranians so how will the US restore the balance of power? In their anger against Russia they created an unnecessary crisis in Ukraine. Just as the help to the Afghan Mujahiddin caused civil war in Afghanistan so Ukraine will be divided by civil war. Meanwhile Pakistan is having to bomb terrorists inside its own borders who they thought they could control. If the Sunnis in the Gulf countries are overwhelmed by Shia Iran will Pakistani nuclear weapons find their way into Sunni hands? India has to stay awake.

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