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We are helping the Saudis fight Yemen by giving them information we spied on to help them fight ISIS & AlQuida - and Iran.
We are helping Iran's ground forces fight the insurgents in Iraq with US dropping bombs to help Iran take Tikrik.
Who are the Saudi's fighting in Yemen, I mean, mainly?
Who are the Iranians fighting in Iraq?
Doesn't Syria feel left out.
Lemme see, Sunnis - that would be Saudi Arabia.
S'hia - that would be Iran, and Syria.
Regarding Iran, is it ethical to be both fighting with them and helping the Saudi's fight against them.
Who all are fighting ISIS and AlQuida?
Am going to bed because my head is spinning. Will look to see tomorrow am if anybody has it figured out.
Thanks, and a Happy WWIII to all of us...
JI7
(89,151 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The crux of the fight this time is Saudi Arabia's export of radical, violently anti-Shia Wahabbist Islam. These guys are essentially nazis on a budget, with the rhetoric and beliefs they espouse.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)As one poster above noted, there is a veritable hate factory churning in Saudi Arabia, and they're exporting their extremist Wahhabi doctrine around the region.
Sunnis and Shias aren't doomed to be at eternal war any more than Protestants and Catholics are.
And sectarian distinctions are often a cover for other, more mundane divisions, tribal, ethnic, etc.
In Yemen, while the Houthis are predominantly Shia, that's not what they claim to be about. They say they're about creating a better governed Yemen for everybody.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,922 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)And, why ? would be the second question.
glinda
(14,807 posts)Oil.