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US, Sunni States Meet On Mideast Insurgent Crisis
2014-06-27
The man spins like a top, lightly popping up hither and yon, meeting with these and those, this one and that one, accomplishing absolutely nothing of value except to joggle the elbows of those frantically trying to get necessary things done before it's entirely too late.
[Ynet] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 is meeting with America's top Sunni state allies in the Mideast to discuss the growing turmoil spawned by a Sunni Moslem insurgency group.

Kerry calls the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
 a concern and critical issue for all of the nations represented at Thursday's meeting in Gay Paree.

They include Jordan, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Oh no, the rest of the world merely needs to take up fracking at a pace that Saudi oil no longer has value. There they'll be, a few years from now, with valueless oil and a temporarily large amount of money in the bank, watching it trickle through their fingers and disappear into the sand. Ozymandis won't be a patch on them, by the time the House of Saud returns to their natural state of oasis bandits at the end of a side route on the camel trails.
and the United Arab Emirates.
All of the above, ditto.
Kerry also met earlier Thursday with the Sunni former prime minister of Leb.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  As per CNN this AM, the Kurds have decided to formally annex Kirkuk to the KAR in northern Iraq.

* RUSSIA TODAY > OP-ED: "WITH MALIKI IN POWER, THE SPLIT-UP OF IRAQ IS INEVITABLE".

versus

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Zero Hedge] THE CHAOS IN IRAQ IS BY [Neo-Con = decades-old?] DESIGN.

Post-Cold War/USSR, post-9-11 Neo-Cons = ANTI-US OWG-NWO GLOBALISTS???

Lest we fergit, 1990'S CLINTONISM > FASCISM = NEW COMMUNISM OR LIMITED COMMUNISM, THE GOP-RIGHT = NEW DEMOLEFT/LIBERAL PROGRESSIVES, .... ...@ETC???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-27 20:46  

#6  *happy sigh*
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-06-27 16:40  

#5  Bring a dip of diplomatic arcana
And a couple more pat memoranda
Backed by will o' the wimp
With the spine of a shrimp
And we'll meet at the fata morgana!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-06-27 15:07  

#4  Which side is Obama on in this fight? It is not clear to me.

Mr. Obama is on Mr. Obama's side. As for Mr. Kerry, he's being received out of politeness by two of the three. IMNSHO, the House of Saud and the UAE have pretty much discounted any efforts by the administration.

Posted by: Pappy   2014-06-27 14:31  

#3  Which side is Obama on in this fight? It is not clear to me.

He's waiting for King Abdullah to tell him.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-06-27 12:16  

#2  Probably not clear to him either, but that won't keep him from watching back-biting soccer with his right hand man.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-06-27 07:52  

#1  Which side is Obama on in this fight? It is not clear to me.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-06-27 07:15  

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