Capping off weekend negotiations at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Arab League has agreed in principle to create a combined military strike force, which officials are saying is aimed squarely at Iran.
The force will be combined from Sunni Arab nations, and the current aim, admittedly preliminary, is for a force of 40,000 troops backed by warplanes to be created within the next four months.
The elephant in the room in all of this is Yemen, as surely the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen would be just the sort of thing this force is designed for, though Saudi officials are still talking up a comparatively quick victory in Yemen, and predicting the war will be over before this force gets off the ground.
Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby singled out fighting Iran as the main focus of the force at any rate, accusing Iran of intervention “in many nations.” The Arab League has objected to Iranian support for the Assad government in Syria against ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other Sunni Islamist factions.
This is getting Monty Python-esque.
The Department of Funny Wars.
Time for someone to step in and say this sketch is getting beyond silly.
The only beneficiaries will be Russia and the fracking community as the price of oil soars.
Arab league are not going to create such militarism regime to start the war with Iran, they are already a militarism or a dictatorial regimes. The idea is to kill the people democracy all together and is feed by Europeans neo liberalism, the USG and those who wants to create this Arab league militarism.
Look: since 1990s the world is entered the new faze of Neo fascism, this act is part of it. Just look for the idea to get worse. Bush regime wanted to militarize the entire Middle East paving it by using the religious feudalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the obvious result is Al-Queada and ISIS, Obama and European neo liberalism wants to militarize and plans for Islamization of the Middle East by supporting those who wants a new militarism to rise in middle east. All that makes israel/Netanyahu very happy.
I don't suppose the people in those countries need to be reminded that Muslims fighting each other is a Zionist wet dream.
Also guaranteed: they're very pleased to have 'Arabs' tilting at Iran so that it doesn't seem to the American public that they're just about the only ones who do.
The Israelis are already helping the Saudis in Yemen with airpower. If the Arabs got together to form some kind of coalition against Iran–it isn't going anywhere unless the Americans and Israelis are directly supporting them—by which I mean airpower (using American and Israeli pilots). Things may stay as a proxy war if it is limited to Yemen–fighting the Houthis, but if these guys try to make a direct strike against the Iranians, all Iran has to do is bomb some of the Gulf sheikdoms with a missile of two–or Riyadh, and these SOBs will have diarrhea for a year and stop fighting.
This so called force is not to fight Iran or any external powers.It is to be used by these corrupt,illegitimate tyrants and dictators against their own people and to put down any and eliminate any real threat to their hold on power and their existence.They fear their own people more than any external threats.That's why they have labeled all oppositions,and those who are not in their camp as terrorists.There are already plans to invade Gaza with forces being financed by the United Arab Emirates ,trained d by the Sissi in Egypt and being led by Dahlan.They are trying to save each other hide.
The Arab League is a strange assortment of states. In terms of population Egypt is by far the largest followed by….Sudan! However in terms of oil power it is Saudi Arabia followed potentially by Iraq and Libya. Saudi Arabia and a few other states on the Arabian Peninsula are theocracies. Egypt is the Prussia of the League where the military rules the state again after a recent coup prevented Egypt to become another theocracy. Ethnicity vies with religion for primacy in several of these states. The Arab League is a house of cards which can collapse at any time as it has in the past.
What we are witnessing though is that our Administration has signaled to the AL: we are not going to put large numbers of "boots on the ground" again to save any of you. Nor will we be the only ones raining bombs on Arab people. You must now do that. The message seems to have gotten through to the House of Saud. There will be war, war, and more war in the Arab world. The German poet Wolfgang von Goethe seems to have written his famous poem about the Sorcerer's Apprentice for this occasion. The water carried on endlessly by the broom in the poem is now the flow of military hardware into the region which no one is able to stop because the current apprentices do not know the magic stop-formula.
The military coup in Egypt was to reestablish the old Mubarak style Kleptocracy run dictatorship and prevent any freely elected government to take place in any Arab country.It was Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates who were biggest supporters and agitators for the coup and biggest financiers of staged demonstrations in Egypt with active participation of the Egyptian oligarchs.The same way as was in Ukraine.The coup was to prevent Egypt existing the US ,Israeli alliance.
I think the Saud's are planning to invade part of Iraq if the Shite led miltia's backed by Iran press on to Mosul
This Arab League Military Force will include another two key actors, and it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to figure out who the two are. One is the USA, and the other "Arab" state is obvious. As in a previous post it was predicted that this is another Sarajevo; 1914. Today, the forces, spoiling for a fight, are choosing sides; Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab states, USA, and Israel, and only Iran represents the other side. Perhaps the EU, with memories of 1914, will stay a country mile away from this insanity. Not so with USA; McCain, Graham, Cotton, Boehner et.al. will love the slaughter. The "Guns of August" are loaded and ready.
More like Oil & Gas league, directed by neocon Washington..
those stupid arab should make coalition for palestanian and fight israeil not iran iran is the only muslim cuntry who stand for palestenian right. they all pupet of usa government. i have no respect for arab government at all
"The Arab League" a circle jerk among eunuchs.
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned – Seven Countries In Five Years
"This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
General Wesley Clark Asked About 7 Country War Plan
HOW ALTERNATIVE MEDIA INFLUENCED THE YEAR OF AWAKENING by Mikael Thalen December 31st, 2013
While some see the year’s countless political scandals as a negative example of America’s current state, continued revelations and increased public knowledge of government corruption has undoubtedly made 2013 the year of awakening.
Although many of the year’s major news stories can be linked to the alternative media’s expanding influence, several in particular are undoubtedly connected to a surge in the public’s awakening.
Western Governments Run Al Qaeda specifically the U.S. does!
http://www.storyleak.com/2013-year-awakening/
October 03, 2012 Provoke an Attack on Iran? “Lets Bring it On… At the End of the Day… We Ought to Take ‘Em Out”
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=799_1348921063
Will they call this joint military force ISIS Part 2?
Those losers could not fight a cold, tell me when did any Arab regime win any war post Arab division by France and Britain. Iran can have saudi for breakfast then take Jordan for lunch and Egypt for desert. The rest will stop running in North Africa.