Opening Pandora’s Box: Middle Eastern Sectarian Strife May Engulf Europe…(Order Out Of Chaos!!)
SputnikNews.com
21.01.2016
The present Middle Eastern map resembles a mosaic being torn to pieces by ongoing geopolitical and sectarian conflicts; the question arises whether Western civilization will fall victim to the far-right religious guerillas of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The twenty-first century has brought the post-WWI order in the Middle East and North Africa into question; the US invasion of Iraq, NATO’s intervention in Libya, the Arab Spring and the emergence of Daesh (ISIL/Islamic State) have balkanized the MENA region.
The Lebanese As-Safir daily underscores that the US political establishment has inherited a method of exploiting religious fanaticism. The method was first used by the Reagan administration to expel the USSR from Afghanistan in the 1980s.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union the White House authorized a direct intervention in Iraq in 2003. However, the experiment has borne its bitter fruit resulting in an exhausting US occupation of the country.
In order to avoid repeating previous mistakes, Washington has revived its practice of using proxy forces of right-wing religious fanatics in regions, which the US political and financial establishment sought to “remap.”
As-Safir points to the fact that four MENA states are currently being engulfed by war: Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen. The Lebanese media outlet emphasizes that Washington’s Gulf allies and radical Islamist proxies are re-drawing the map of the region playing directly into hands of the Pentagon’s war planners.
The present Middle Eastern borders were determined under the Anglo-French Asia Minor (or the Sykes-Picot) Agreement in 1916. What if the Sykes-Picot order is no longer relevant, experts ask.
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