Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on January 24, 2015

By Kam Zarrabi

When it comes to Americas foreign policies, Its too bad that trying to do whats good for America is so often blocked by special interest groups and elected officials who owe their positions, hence their loyalties, to influence peddlers with different agendas. Watching the proceedings of January 21stSenate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on C-SPAN exemplified this tragic state of affairs. It was about the new opening to Cuba, and the progress being made toward a solution to the Iranian nuclear issues currently underway between the P5+1 group headed by the United States and the Iranian delegation.

Before getting into what troubled me most watching the proceedings, it would be helpful to highlight a few facts on the ground:

Now, let us look at what Americas honest concerns and interests might be in the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and indeed the rest of the so-called Islamic world. One of those concerns cannot possibly be Irans nuclear ambitions. As I mentioned above, even a nuclear-armed Iran does not pose any danger of a potential offensive use of nuclear weapons. Yes, having a nuclear arsenal might work as a deterrent to discourage a nuclear attack upon Iran by Israel, but even that possibility is so remote that devoting the money and energy to develop that deterrent tool would be foolish at best. Israel could be literally wiped out of existence by non-nuclear means should it attempt to attack Iran with its atomic weapons. So, why would Iran even bother?

Americas true agenda is finding the most expedient and, at the same time, face-saving way to extricate itself from the current costly and counterproductive entanglements in the Middle East, without creating more breeding areas for terrorist cells that intend to jeopardize Americas legitimate interests. This is where the question pops up as to why the Assad regime in Syria was targeted by the United States in the first place, resulting in the destruction of a nation, hundreds of thousands of casualties, over two million refugees, and a battleground for competing terrorist gangs that led to the formation of the Daesh group. How was the Syrian regime a threat to the United States of America to have been targeted for regime-change? If it was an ally of Iran and a conduit between Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah and, by extension, the Palestinian Hamas, it might have been a concern for Israel, not the United States; unless, of course, we consider Israels interests worth sacrificing American lives and fortune and the creation of more enemies for America.

Lets not kid ourselves that the concern for targeting the Assad regime was a purely humanitarian issue that required encouraging and financing opposition groups to bring down a tyrannical dictator in order to promote freedom and democracy - in spite of what Senators McCain and Graham say. The truth cannot be denied that American attempts to topple the Assad regime was simply to follow Israels demands and, at the same time, to support our compliant ally, the Saudi clan.

Now we are facing a horrible blowback. We found out the hard and embarrassing way that Assad was not a pushover as the likes of Senators McCain and Graham think. And thanks to Americas misguided interference, Daesh militants and sympathizers are pouring through the 900 mile border from Syria to Turkey and on to Western Europe and ultimately to North America.

The only armies with adequate military skills and equipment that can possibly eradicate the Daesh movement are the Syrian army, the Lebanese Hezbollah, and the Iranian forces. Iran has already been engaged in battling the Daesh terror groups in Iraq, although the media here tries not to mention its accomplishments or even its logistical coordination with the Americans for political reasons.

In Yemen, it is the Iran backed Houthis that are gaining more control and fighting both terrorist groups, Al-Qaeda and Daesh. Houthis, and the Yemeni government subsidized by the Saudis and Americans, are in the best position to eradicate both groups which are a threat to Americas regional interests, the Saudi regime, as well as to Iran, especially now that these terrorist camps have found new spawning environment in Afghanistan next door to Iran.

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Obama's State of the Union Address and its Bearing on US/Iran Relations

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