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Tag Archives: Sunnis
The Destruction of the Turkish Army
Since the abortive coup attempt in Turkey there have been truckloads of political pontifications concerning the future course of the Sultan Erdogan’s “new Turkey.” Most of the Western leadership and the Arab Gulf states have announced their support for the … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Military, Islamism, Middle East Politics, Military, muslim brotherhood, Shia, Turkey, US Foreign Policy, US Foreign Policy in Middle East
Tagged Coup, Erdogan, ISIL, ISIS, Islamists, Middle East, Muslim Brothers, Obama, Political Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sunnis, terrorism, Turkey, US foreign policy
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If You Understand the U.S Policy toward Syria, Please Stand Up
After a bewildering week of events and non events, no one can honestly say they know what is going on with our policy in or toward Syria. Perhaps most people are already bored and the news media has returned to … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Military, Syria, US Foreign Policy in Middle East
Tagged Assad, Hizbollah, Islamists, Lebanon, Ma'laoula, Obama, Putin, Russia, Shia, Sunnis, Syria, U.S Foreign Policy
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Money Makes a Midget a Giant – The case of Qatar
This past week a change in the regime of Qatar has initiated a number of stories about the Arab “magic kingdom.” This is a tribal state, a family fiefdom in which only one out of five people who live there … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Culture, Middle East Politics
Tagged Al-, al-Thani, Arab culture, Bahrain, Gulf, Hamas, Hurra, Jazeera, Khalifas, Qatar, Radical Islam, Shia, Sunnis, Syria, Thani, Wahabis, Wahhabism
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Sunni versus Shi’a
There can be little doubt that the political conflict that convulses the Arab and Islamic world is that of the Shi’a -Sunni conflict. It has superseded the near century of the Arab-Israeli conflict. While many of the Western academics and … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Culture, Middle East Politics
Tagged Arab, Egypt, Iran, Islam, Middle East, Shia, Sunnis
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Turkey and Erdogan
The Alevi are a salient aspect to the troubles in Turkey. The Gezi park area is an area inhabited by a large community of Alevis. Some years ago a series of drive- by shootings left a number of Alevis dead … Continue reading
Erdogan, Obama’s poster boy as a model for Islamist democracy
Turkey’s Erdogan and President Obama share one very important personal attribute. Both have a surfeit of megalomania. Erdogan pictured himself as the Sultan of the new Ottoman empire, sheltering the hapless Arabs under his protective wing. He thought that by … Continue reading
Posted in Turkey, US Foreign Policy in Middle East
Tagged Alawis, Alevis, Arab Spring, Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Iraq, Middle East, Shia, Sunnis, Syria, Turkey, US foreign policy
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