(via SimplyJews) A top Kuwaiti analyst would rather see Israel destroying the Iranian nuclear program than the United States.
The story leads off with this:
The destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities would be in the interest of the Arab nations in the Gulf, and it would be less embarrassing if it was done by Israel rather than the U.S., a top Kuwaiti strategist said in remarks published Sunday.
This is news, isn’t it? Pardon me if I don’t really care that much what former government advisers in Kuwait think about who should be disabling the Iranians when it comes along with the much more important, albeit somewhat tacitly expressed, admission that the Arab states would like to see the Iranians not possessing a nuclear stockpile. That seems to be much more important to me.
“Honestly speaking, they would be achieving something of great strategic value for the GCC by stopping Iran’s tendency for hegemony over the area,” he said, adding that “nipping it in the bud by Israeli hands would be less embarrassing for us than if the Americans did it.”
Al-Faraj said Tehran was interfering in Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories, and inciting strife between Sunnis and Shiites.
Oh, so now not only are the Iranians building nuclear weapons again, something that the Arab states should send our intelligence agencies a memo regarding, but they are also interfering widely across the region? I thought that it was the United States that was the great Satan in those parts of the world, aren’t we the ones stoking the fires of sectarian violence, what with our spending billions upon billions of dollars to rebuild two countries destroyed by despots and Islamic extremists? Maybe I’ve been getting my Muslim street rhetoric from the wrong sources, domestic ones, instead of those closer to the conflict.
We all know why frank assessments such as the one offered by Sami al-Faraj, the Kuwaiti adviser, aren’t getting coverage in the mainstream media- they don’t fit the narrative that so many academics and journalists love to pin on the United States. By admitting that not only is Iran a major problem in the region, which anyone who has honestly watched developments between Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel could’ve already told you about, but that they have a secretive nuclear program, it doesn’t discourage further involvement by the United States to secure what al-Faraj is admitting to be shared security goals.
Of course hypocrisy isn’t just a domestic problem, as the Arab states would just rather have their usual rhetoric-friendly punching bag whacking the hornet’s nest off the house instead of the big moneymaking partner who they like doing so much business with. It would be neater to not have the Americans get their hands any dirtier.
Isn’t it also ironic that a Middle East adviser is advocating the exact puppet relationship between the U.S. and Israel that they have been denouncing and crafting conspiracy theories on for decades? Or that a Middle Eastern adviser is encouraging Israeli military incursion into other sovereign nations?
“The question is what would [Iran] do if it were a nuclear nation? We have to call a spade a spade and say that burying the military nuclear Iranian project is in the interest of GCC states, and other countries in the area,” added al-Faraj, who heads the independent Kuwait Center for Strategy Studies.
Well, al-Faraj, if you believe one tenth of the speeches coming out of Tehran, you can bet that at the top of the Iranians list would be removing that Israeli intervention option from any future conflicts, or for that matter future existence. How many nuclear holocaust banners do they need to print before someone takes them seriously? Propaganda printing has got to be one area of the Iranian economy that isn’t hurting right now.
Back on our side of the lunacy, it is clear that someone needs to do something about the Iranians. I’m not against Israel being that party, I just found it interesting that that would be the preference of the Arabs as well.
Update 1:02PM CST:
American Thinker has a relevant article today covering the NIE and how it relates to internal debate in Iran.
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