At
first glance President Obama's Middle East policy seems crazy. At
second glance it could be his early childhood Sunni Muslim
orientation growing up in Sunni Indonesian society. In Indonesia 88%
are Muslim and 99% of Muslims are Sunni. A couple of days after Syria
got rid of all its chemical weapons stockpile he asked Congress for a
half billion dollars for weapons for the Sunni jihadist at war on the
Syrian Government. The President subconsciously may see red at Shi'a
and Alawite and doesn't mind building up a vast jihadist army in the
Middle east without a nation of their own to topple Alawite-Shiist
Assad if possible, intimidate Iran with quality terrorist insurgents,
eye-down Jewish Israel and look southwest toward oil-fat Crotiun
Saudi Arabian royals.
ISIS
has of course taken much of Iraq already. ISIS is undermining the
Iraq government and the President wasn't able to influence Prime
Minister Malaki much over the years. Withdrawal from Iraq without
security arrangements was followed by building up a jihadist fighting
force. Al Qaeda has completely swelled in numbers as a consequence.
Civilian
casualties for Syria and Iraq during the President's tenure have been
huge and probable will increase. Muslims have a different view of
Armageddon than Christians. The President may not be aware of the
appearance to Christians of his Middle East policy.
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