American Raj Plays the ‘Great Game’ Posted on September 30, 2010 by wandering raven In the last half of the twentieth century there were two great empires, the American and the Soviet. The history of the Middle East is counter-intuitive, and Margolis is a travelled guide through the maze. But so much of the aid and loans got misused in Pakistan because it actually was a form of tribute. But the Saudi elite is beholden to their main consumer, and the threat of a CIA sponsored coup must be ever in their minds.But American weapons also help to maintain a high level of local control over restive Saudis. (‘Fortunately’ for Tibet, this time round it was securely under Chinese subjugation, and thus freed from the attentions of the other empires).In 1979 the US government decided to use guerilla fighters based in Pakistan to attack and destabilise the communist government of Afghanistan, with the specific intention of drawing the Soviet Union into a war in Afghanistan that it would not win.Reminiscent of the carnage that British incursions wrought in Afghanistan and elsewhere while it played the ‘Great Game’, this action resulted in widespread destruction and death throughout Afghanistan.And what it also caused was the empowerment of a movement of religious conservatives and extremists across Muslim lands, in a process well described in most of the primary references in the reading list for this blog.Thus, collapse and chaos of American interests in Afghanistan that led to the empowerment of the Taliban and a nine year war to regain American hegemony.The most typical way in which the American Raj is maintained is by arming local despots to the teeth, and providing their ‘security’ forces (read secret police) with training, weapons, and instruction.This process has been systematised in the extreme in the case of Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately he pushed it too far, which destroys the credibility he has for the parts that he actually got right. The problem is that he filled the space in between his valid insight and good ideas with some wild aspersions, false data, and other spurious claims. The curse of Lebanon --15.
It takes readers inside the thinking and worldview of anti-Western Islamic radicals throughout the Muslim world and identifies the historical, political, and religious factors that have played a major role in generating hostility toward the West. This is particularly disappointing because he does have some good experience and unique insight that allows him to make a good analysis. Saudi Arabia has received much attention and scrutiny after 9/11 with oil money flowing both directions for financial reasons and military reasons. Copyright © 1999-2020 PalestineChronicle.com. The book is elegantly written, and holds no punches when it comes to criticising the cause-effect relationships of the puppeAn excellent expose on various hot zones in the middle east. Those ideals are readily seen through by the people who suffer under the rule of imperial ambition for a combination of resource control (mainly oil, but also gas and other natural resources) and cheap controlled labour markets.As much as Palestine is the ‘cause celebre’ for the people and the direction of their anger, the root of it all is also understood to be the U.S. hegemon attempting to own and control the resources of the area, denying them to the ummah or community to which they belong. At the other end of the scale are three governments that are fully supported by the U.S., fully involved within U.S. military and monetary manipulations, and somewhat secretly, but really being no secret for those aware of events, fully involved with Israel in maintaining the status quo in Palestinian territory: Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. It is not encyclopaedic in trying to fit in all the details about people and events, and other works dig deeper into specific areas and ideas, but it is comprehensive, covering all the main themes, ideas, places, and personalities that have shaped the area over the last century.
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