President Obama will soon recognize that he blundered in his first year by retaining a large number of senior level Bush-era political appointees in the defense and intelligence agencies. These Bush appointees - who constitute as much as 70 percent of the management personnel in the US war on terrorism, were able to preserve President Bush’s NeoCon orientation in the war on terrorism. Bush’s NeoCons were convinced that the war on terrorism could be won by appeasing Shia Pakistan in Afghanistan and Shia Iran in Iraq and other terrorist hot spots from the Balkans to Latin America.
Obama decided he was safe in taking this pro-NeoCon approach after consulting with Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Clintons both favored Obama cooperation with the NeoCons, as they had done for many years on issues like Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and in support of pro-German policies on NATO expansion.
Unfortunately for Obama, these Bush-era NeoCons, in cooperation with Gen, Petraeus, set traps for Obaama in today's policy of US appeasement of Shia Pakistan in Afghanistan and Shia Iran in Iraq. These Shia states will never be reliable partners because they oppose Obama faith in democracy and multi-ethnic governments as the answer to problems in the Middle East and South Asia.
In short, Obama must withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, treat Pakistan and Iran as potential adversaries, and take immediate steps to preserve stability in Iraq by aligning with Muqtada al Sadr and Osama bin Ladin against Iran and its Kurdish allies. Obama would be wise to look to Afghanistan’s President Karzai -- whose country has a long and distinguished tradition of resistance to imperialism -- as the initiator of a new US anti-Iran and anti-Pakistan approach.
In short, President Obama must endorse President Karzai's call for an immediate Afghan cease fire and negotiations for a power sharing agreement between President Karzai, Mullah Omar, and Osama bin Ladin. These three leaders — backstopped by Iraq’s Muq-tada al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite Ayatollah Sistani, Syria’s President Assad, Hizbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian organizations –shall issue a collective warning to Iran, Pakistan, the ISI/CIA against further interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs (for more details about a progressive anti-Iran Middle East coalition of Iraq, Syria, and Hezbollah,see Petroleumworld.com.)
In this regard, after consulations with the Iraqi leadership, President Karzai, Mullah Omar and Osama bin Ladin shall address the issue of Iraq, They shall inform the Kurds that entire Arab world is aware of Kurdish perfidy to remove Palestinian statehood from the Middle East’s agenda, to be replaced by Kurdish-Iranian demands for three new Kurdish states that would be formed from the Arab Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
Plus, Karzai, Mullah Omar. and bin Ladin shall warn the Iraqi Kurds to end their collaboration with Iran’s Nazi president Ahmadinejad, the notorious pro-Iran SCIRI militia in Iraq, and with Iraq’s current prime minister Nouri al Maliki. This high levaql Kurdish-Iranian– al Maliki collaboration is directed at partitioning Iraq and its oil, with Iran taking the Iraqi city of Basra.
Moreover, Iran would also end diplomatic support for the likely Kurdish occupation of Arab Kirkuk iand its oil. At the end of this unprovoked aggression against Iraq, the Kurds and Iranians imtend to destroy the Arab state of Iraq amd expell all the Iraqi Sunnis from their Arab homeland by stealing more than two-thirds of Arab Iraq’s oil, via Iran’s illegal annexation of Basra and the Kurdish illegal annexation of Kirkuk;
President Obama should support Karzai’s security initiatives for Iraq and Afghanistan by offering weapons to alQaeda to confront Iranian and Kurdish terrorism in Iraq. Moreover, the US should agree on Joint US-Saudi-al Qaeda actions to protect Iraq from Iranian and Kurdish subversion.
Finally, Obama should explore options for protecting Afghanistan and the region by distributing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia, Syria, and China. Meanwhile, China would invite Pakistan to negotiations on regional security under Russian-Chinese auspices at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Is a better solution plausible in Afghanistan or Iraq?
Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee and was the Senior Advisor for International Economics at the Crisis Management Center of the National Security Council, 1984 -1986. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views.
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