Bahrain - a conundrum for the interventionists

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This rather makes pleas for Western intervention in Libya subject to interesting analysis. If the fight for liberty and freedom is to be supported in Libya, surely Bahrain should be on our list of military interventions too? Clearly these rebels, if successful, may tend towards Iran, but that is their free choice (we have invaded a country previously to depose a Sunni dictator and hand a country over to Iranian influence, so why not now)? Should they be so minded, why shouldn't Iran be allowed to invade Bahrain on behalf of the Shia non-governmental majority as the interventionist would have us do in Libya, and as Saudi Arabia has done on behalf of the dictator? Surely the Saudis, as nurturers of the 9-11 bombers and hardline Islamist dogma - a country steeped in the worst kind of Shari'a law and seemingly determined to crush the legitimate aspirations of an oppressed majority in another country by force - should be subject to immediate sanction, if not military action, at long last?

Could you imagine the world response if Iran intervened in Bahrain... or Lebanon? Yes, Saud is as dark and oppressive as Iran, but they have way better PR.


But I can tell you that the Revolutionary Guard must have been itching to set sail across the Persian Gulf. This, incidentally, is the ultimate nightmare scenario for the house of Saud. They'd let IDF soldiers spray-paint Makkah minarets before they'll let Iranian influence spread in the peninsula. So I am not surprised that they sent in their security forces to quell any potential, or perceived, Iranian-backed insurrection.


Edit: Oh, and by the way. Iran like to think it still has territorial claims on Bahrain. Crazy kooks.