The Awakening Sunni Giant -- Michael Weiss, NOW
Last Friday, King Abdullah cut short his summer vacation in Morocco and flew back to Riyadh not only to meet with his national security advisors but to coordinate a new strategy for winning the war in Syria, one that encompasses a unified regional bloc of Sunni-majority powers now ranged against Iran, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime. The Wahhabi kingdom has exhausted its patience with miscarried attempts to resolve the Syria crisis through diplomacy and it will not wait to see the coming battle in Aleppo play out before assuming control of the Syrian rebellion. State-backed regional efforts to bolster moderate Free Syrian Army elements will thus be joined with the fetid call to jihad emanating from clerical quarters in Cairo, Doha, Mecca, and beyond. The mullahs have only themselves to blame. "Nasrallah fucked up," one well-connected Syrian source told me recently. "He awakened the Sunni giant. The Saudis took Hezbollah's invasion of Qusayr personally."
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My Comment: After being dormant for a few centuries, the Sunni-Shiite conflict is being rekindled.No one is interested in talking peace right now .... this is a fight to the finish. And while Western powers may dither and debate amongst themselves on what to do, the powers in the region have made the strategic decision to go to war .... even though it is undeclared.
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