The Nature of Our Enemies
In light of Russia's recent decision to suspend work on the nuclear reactor in Bushehr, Iran (which I find to be quite illuminating) here a few exceedingly quick thoughts on the nature of our enemies:- Top tier - militant Islam (by the way, keep an eye on southern Thailand - this is one of the hotter spots of the worldwide Islamofascist insurgency and it gets next to no press)
- Second tier - Russia and China (as the article above shows, at least to me, Russia is in it for the money only - like the Chinese, they're not worried about ideology; if you're Iran and you threaten Israel - Russia will be happy to do business with you, but if you stop paying your bills, Russia turns icy real fast; I believe China is the same way - for instance, they are all over Africa right now doing oil deals with dirty governments - we do that too but China goes much farther with it, explicitly endorsing the principle that nations cannot meddle in other nations' internal affairs - hoping, of course, that that same principle will continue to be applied to them)
- Third tier - nominal Middle Eastern allies (ex. Saudi Arabia) whose unelected leaders publicly renounce us but privately help us out
- Fourth tier - nominal European/NATO allies (ex. France and Germany) who suffer from a severe case of anti-Americanism
- North Korea is somewhere between the second and third tier? Not sure about them...
Wish I had more time to spend on this - let me know what I'm missing.
posted by JM @ 7:52 PM
<< Home