Too optimistic

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Nov 23, 2011 at 15:22

DaveP wrote :

" One should not be too pessimistic- every cloud has a silver lining. Once all these "Arab Spring" democracies become full-fledged totalitarian theocracies, a caliphate can be formed. Then NATO will have the enemy it has been craving for since the fall of the USSR."

I am afraid you're over optimistic here. Once all these Arab Spring "democracies" become full-fledged totalitarian theocracies on a par with America's darling Saudi Arabia, NATO will arm them to the teeth and will use them to wage jihad in China through them.

By 2016 China will have surpassed the US economy and if America wants to preserve the world hegemony which is based on two pillars its economic and military superiority, it must stop and reverse China's ascendency. Once it disrupted the USSR from within with US-backed jihad and now its grand strategy is pursuing the same objective and methods, even to the point of relying on the expertise of the old veterans of the US-jihadist axis like Z. Brzezinski and R. Gates - while America's enemy is clear enough to the ruling elites. For them its name is not Islam or the caliphate , not even al-Qaeda or Taliban. It's the People's Republic of China. When you look at the events of 2011 in the Middle East from this perspective many things which seem absurd and irrational become quite logical and understandable.

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