Caroline Glick reminds us of what’s been happening in Turkey and Iran
Iran and Turkey have been dealing with some adversity lately:
Israel’s two most formidable adversaries – Iran and Turkey – both came up short in their quests for regional domination, and Israel is reaping the rewards of their losses.
Two weeks ago, Netanyahu held a previously unannounced meeting in Uganda with Sudanese President Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan. Instant commentaries presented the meeting as a salutary side product of the Trump plan. But the truth is much more significant…
Until last April, Sudan was ruled for thirty years by Omar al-Bashir. Bashir, an Islamist, was a major sponsor of global terrorism…
In December 2018, disgusted by rampant corruption and human rights abuses, the Sudanese people rose up against their leaders. For five months, massive anti-government protests were held throughout the country. Responding to public pressure, last April the Sudanese military overthrew al-Bashir.
The units that overthrew al-Bashir were supported by the Gulf states, Egypt, the U.S. and according to some reports, Israel. The new regime, which is pledged to transition to some form of democracy within two years, is supported by these governments.
Al-Bashir for his part was supported by Iran, Qatar and Turkey. His removal, then was a huge blow to all three. For the Iranian regime, his removal from power by forces allied with Iran’s bitter enemies was arguably a greater loss that the loss of terror master Qassem Soleimani and his lieutenants last month at the hands of a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad. The loss of Sudan calls into question Iran’s continued ability to maintain its regional campaigns.
There’s much much more at the link, including an analysis of what’s been happening in Turkey.
All of this progress can be reversed, depending on the outcome of the pending elections in Israel and the US.
No one’s pretending that Sudan is some sort of great place to be right now. But in geopolitical terms, it’s a marked improvement.
Requalified. Progress is monotonic change. This is a positive development. The end of quid pro Bos, the end of a legacy. Probably not. The Democrats are already colluding with the Iranian regime, and the Europeans are probably not far behind.
Obama chose poorly. Or, to say somewhat more harshly, he chose treasonously. Pity.
This part sounds like a stretch:
“For the Iranian regime, his removal from power by forces allied with Iran’s bitter enemies was arguably a greater loss that the loss of terror master Qassem Soleimani and his lieutenants …”
I’m reminded of the joke whose punchline goes “First prize: one week vacation in Cleveland. Second prize: two week vacation in Cleveland.”
Finally, some hopeful news from the region.
It actually makes me “feel” better. I’m tired of disliking people who hate me/us.
I’m even tired of tracing out [though no one ever asked me to] the moral logic of nihilists, both national and international, and openly stating the shocking secular conclusions that follow [i.e., the ‘moral other’ business I’m always going on about] from their announced premises in the hope of knocking some sense into them.
They are not paying any attention to what I say anyway; and if they were, they would not be shocked out of advocating what they are advocating, no matter what alarming consequences I claimed it was that followed for themselves from what they had said regarding others.
But in a moment like this, just imagine what a social world with less resentment, envy, malice and hate would be like.
DNW on February 22, 2020 at 3:55 pm said:
… just imagine what a social world with less resentment, envy, malice and hate would be like.
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Totally agree with your sentiments, but the final line reminded me of a post I read earlier this week.
Sometimes what we need is more “truth in labeling.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/classic-john-lennon-lyric-adjusted-to-imagine-all-the-dead-people-to-give-a-better-perspective-of-communism
I know Turks who would be thrilled to see Erdogan fall, and I know expat Iranians who would cry with joy if the ayatollah’s regime collapsed. We can hope.
“I know Turks who would be thrilled to see Erdogan fall, and I know expat Iranians who would cry with joy if the ayatollah’s regime collapsed.” Kate
To paraphrase, Jefferson, Daniel Webster and R.A. Heinlein;
“There are two kinds of people; those who wish to control others and those who have no such desire.”
In the larger scheme of things, nothing will change until those who have no desire to control others make it a capital crime with a mandatory death sentence to work for or advocate through coercion, the control of other people… “for their own good”.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C. S. Lewis
Bottom line: some people deserve to be put down like rabid dogs.