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For three decades Washington told you the missiles are for the people (we have to commit mass murder to save them!) — for the oppressed, the voiceless, those living under theocratic tyranny. It funded colour revolutions. Cheered manufactured protesters in Iran. Ran Farsi-language CIA social media accounts urging Iranians into the streets. Every last word of it in the name of freedom. But where is CNN and the BBC demanding freedom and liberty for this popular uprising in Bahrain? Fecking hypocrites.
The majority Shia population of Bahrain are in the streets. Saudi tanks are crossing the King Fahd Causeway. Again. Where is the White House statement cheering on this popular uprising for liberty and freedom? Where is the State Department's grave concern? Silent — because Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet, and the Al Khalifa family are the right kind of autocrats. The kind that price their oil in dollars. The wrong kind of autocrat is simply the one Washington doesn't own. Washington loves brutal dictatorships and the feeling is mutual for the Sunni monarchs that are loyal to the empires exporting of actual terrorism.
Now watch the boomerang.
The regime change virus they launched at Tehran is airborne and unguided. Bahrain shaking. Saudi Arabia's Shia Eastern Province — sitting on top of the kingdom's oil fields, furious for forty years — watching every frame of this. How stable is Kuwait? Qatar's LNG offline. Every Gulf monarch who rented their soil to Washington is now a target not of Iran's choosing but of America's regime change boomerang.
And Israel. When historians go looking for what Operation Epic Fury actually produced, they may well find the regimes that fell were not in Tehran. The Likud fantasy of a redrawn Middle East may yet arrive — just not in the direction anyone promised the Israeli public.
They wanted regime change in Iran.
They may have lit the fuse on everything else. Darwinian level arrogance and incompetence.
Reader Comments
It is them that need just a little push from the outside to get overtrown.
Soon the Iranis will go for the oil fields, and the water desalination plants. Especially the latter, depriving them of about 60% of their drinking water, will not go unnoticed ...
None of this monarchs there really comes from a "royal family". They all had been little provincial dictators, heaved into their positions after after Sykes-Picot draw arbitrary lines in the area. All of the alliances and loyalities depend on the money they hand down to their henchmen - money they received from the Western banking system.