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I know the country well. It's not the cakewalk Iraq was in terms of terrain. And they have a standing army. It's well trained. They don't have SHIT for equipment, and their maintenance practices suck, but they're hardened. The country is poor as catshit--they don't have decent infrastructure, they're IMPORTING gasoline AND rationing it (no refining capacity in country) and a war would be just the thing to jumpstart THEIR economy, too.
The Saudis want us to help keep Iran in check. They just want us to threaten Iran, to rattle the odd sabre, so they don't get designs on half of Iraq.
That's doing the bidding of the Saudis, you see, to keep the shi'a in check. The Saudis don't like the "Shi'a Crescent" bullshit the Persians are pulling in Syria and the Lebanon. They don't like the way the Shi'a eye the Holy Places in Mekkah and Medina, and they don't like the way they pander to the Palestinians either, with the "On to Jerusalem" talk, as though the Guardians of the Holy Places, the Saudis, have insufficient will in that regard.
If WW3 gets lit off as the result of a REAL Holy War, a Shi'a-Sunni conflict, then the whole world will be in a mess. But it won't be US who are the main actors, here--we'll be just a hair more significant than, say, an Archduke in the big scheme of things, at least at the outset, and we won't be controlling the horizontal OR the vertical. Closer neighbors, like the Russkies, won't be too thrilled, nor will the Turks with their huge standing army.
What we WILL have to do, though, is pick a side---like we as a nation actually give a shit which sect of the Muslim religion properly indicates the true descendants of the prophet? We'll have to sorta PRETEND we care, though....
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