The Arms deal concluded between the Bush Administration and the Saudi Monarchy is a disaster waiting to happen in the future. I lament that I have not followed the nuts and bolts of the issue and so I do not know if Congress has to okay the deal. If Congress has to okay the deal let us hope this Democratic controlled Congress has enough brains to indeed prevent the deal from following through.
Walid Phares has an idealistic alternative to the Saudi Arms deal. It is extremely idealistic because it boils to down to one essence: The Saudi Monarchy switching up on the Wahhabi teaching that disseminates from the area and setting new agendas to execute Middle Eastern stability by confronting the Shi’ite radicals of Iran with a new ideology that will hopefully destabilize the Mullah controlled government. The Phares idealism is directed to anti-Khomeini revolutionary Shi’ites, Kurds and Arabs living in Iran. Phares admits (at least to himself) that there is no real idea of whom or where to find this element in Iranian society.
Frankly Mohammedan hate is too entrenched for Phares’ vision to be realized at this moment in time. Something catastrophic would have to happen to the Saudi Monarchy to change its paradigm or face an alternative of the Monarchy imminent demise.
I suspect such a catastrophe would be too late to successfully implement the Phares idealism.
However I do think the Phares idealism can be applied to Mohammedans living in the West. It would take courage to evade the Politically Correct and ban Wahhabi and Khomeinist-Shi’ite literature as teaching tools in the West. I am not saying to have a good ol’ fashion Nazi-Communist-Big Brother book burning, rather if it is taught in schools as hate it is time to prohibit the teaching. I am uncertain of have how to prevent teaching hate in American madrassas and Mosques without infringing on Free Speech, but maybe the government bureaucracies can get some ideas from the ACLU who have effectively stopped the teaching of Christian perspectives in public schools.
Walid Phares has an idealistic alternative to the Saudi Arms deal. It is extremely idealistic because it boils to down to one essence: The Saudi Monarchy switching up on the Wahhabi teaching that disseminates from the area and setting new agendas to execute Middle Eastern stability by confronting the Shi’ite radicals of Iran with a new ideology that will hopefully destabilize the Mullah controlled government. The Phares idealism is directed to anti-Khomeini revolutionary Shi’ites, Kurds and Arabs living in Iran. Phares admits (at least to himself) that there is no real idea of whom or where to find this element in Iranian society.
Frankly Mohammedan hate is too entrenched for Phares’ vision to be realized at this moment in time. Something catastrophic would have to happen to the Saudi Monarchy to change its paradigm or face an alternative of the Monarchy imminent demise.
I suspect such a catastrophe would be too late to successfully implement the Phares idealism.
However I do think the Phares idealism can be applied to Mohammedans living in the West. It would take courage to evade the Politically Correct and ban Wahhabi and Khomeinist-Shi’ite literature as teaching tools in the West. I am not saying to have a good ol’ fashion Nazi-Communist-Big Brother book burning, rather if it is taught in schools as hate it is time to prohibit the teaching. I am uncertain of have how to prevent teaching hate in American madrassas and Mosques without infringing on Free Speech, but maybe the government bureaucracies can get some ideas from the ACLU who have effectively stopped the teaching of Christian perspectives in public schools.
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