rssBeyond the Al Arabiya Interview: Getting Out of Iraq
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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Marc Lynch goes through the latest Gallup poll about what’s important to Arab public opinion. It was conducted before the Gaza war — way before, in fact: May-August 2008, so this is, as Marc notes, not indicative of any “Obama Effect” that may or may not materialize — and demonstrates an opportunity for President Obama to deliver on the outreach to the Muslim world implicitly offered in his Al Arabiya interview:
Gallup also asked which of series of actions by the U.S. would improve views of American leadership. The main finding was that “residents in eight of the countries surveyed are most likely to say the United States’ withdrawal from Iraq would improve their opinion very significantly.” Closing Guantanamo was also frequently cited, while a variety of economic and political reform suggestions received a degree of support varying by country.
Well, done and done, basically, and we’ve just entered Week Two of the next four years.
No one should be under the false impression that there’s any sort of magic bullet for repairing U.S. esteem in the Arab world. There are and will continue to be real points of divergence in interests — the U.S./Israel partnership, for instance, isn’t going to be jettisoned, to Arab chagrin. But what’s important — and what’s been lacking for eight years — is a presumption of basic good faith on the part of the United States, so that even when the United States acts on areas of mutual interest, the Arab public interprets those actions accordingly. That in turn requires visible U.S. action on issues of concern to the Arab public, despite political difficulties.
Seen in that light, it’s reasonable to expect leaving Iraq and shutting Guantanamo to earn the Obama administration some dividends — stuff that’s going to be important when the United States has to, say, extract difficult Arab acceptance of peace terms with Israel or launch Hellfire missiles at Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen or something.
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Comment posted January 28, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Stop the process of Kurdish Genocide in Turkey
Israeli Government and Jewish lobbyist in Europe and America are helping Turks of Turkey for the Kurds Genocides in Turkey. Kurdish traders’ like Barzani, Talabani, Zebari and Barham Salah are partners of that crime against the Humanity.
We are asking President Obama to correct the wrong policy of the US government in the Middle East. The lobbyists in America are supporting Turkey to make money. They are calming that Turkey is fighting terrorist organizations of PKK only. PKK are not violent organizations any more. They are asking the Turks of Turkey for peaceful settlement of Kurdish right in Turkey.
The Turks of Turkey are insisting to continue with the wars. The Turks of Turkey are hiring Israeli Government, Europeans and American lobbyist, Traders Barzani and Talabani mafia groups to finish of the Kurdish populations in Turkey.
Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turks of Turkey killed and displaced at least ten million Kurds in Kurdistan region of Turkey. We are appealing to you directly Mr. President Obama to stop this unjust practice by Turkey.
We are calling on the Kurdish people world wide to join Eraiain liberations movement to stop the Turks and Israel plans for our people’s Genocide in Kurdistan of Turkey.
Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
PM of Turkey or Iran and Israel
PM of Turkey is not different from Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden. He is sharing the same ideological ambitions but he is trying to achieve the same result deferentially than them. They are the people who want to defeat secular and western democratic systems in the “Muslim World”. They are working to establish the Islamic dictatorship similar to the Communist dictatorships. The PM of Turkey wants to be the Islamic “Khalifa” so is Osama bin Laden.
Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran did achieve the title of “Imam” in Shia’ism which is equivalent to the Islamic “Khalifa” in Islamic Sunni branch.
We are suffering from the Islamic unjust dictatorship in Iran now. Ayatollah Khomeini now is the residence of Hell for his crime against the Muslim people in Iran and Iraq.
The Islamic movements are sharing the common goals. The only different is PM of Turkey wants to take different method for reaching the same gals; when the times are right he will fight the USA, Israel, EU and Russian. He is trying to fool the western countries until he reaches his goals of eliminating the Turkish General’s power first in home.
PM of Turkey never want to join the EU. His goals are to defeat the Military Generals in Turkey first; then you will see him how moderate he is.
We are saying for over one year now; what the Islamic movement wants and what the Islamic party in Turkey wants. His plan to go to EU is this. He want to show the military that the west does not like Turkey; and then he want to eliminate the military Generals powers in Turkey so he can control the military first. After that he wants to revive the Turkish holly wars of “Jihad” against the west, Israel and Russia. And declare himself Islamic “Khalifa” for life and then his son can take over after his death. They are the Islamic dictators no more no less. The Islamic movements are against technology, freedom of religions, and freedom of any thing. They do love the power to abuse the people.
The PM of Turkey and his latest acting against Israel in that meeting are just part of his goal. The Islamic movement does not have any good thing for Muslim people. They are even much worse than the Communist dictatorships. One is using religions to rule by force and the other is using labors to rule by force. But the outcomes are the same for the ruled people.
Sincerely,
Jaff Sassani
From the SKDC
jaff.skdc@googlemail.com
Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 8:30 pm
PM of Turkey or Iran and Israel
PM of Turkey is not different from Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden. He is sharing the same ideological ambitions but he is trying to achieve the same result deferentially than them. They are the people who want to defeat secular and western democratic systems in the “Muslim World”. They are working to establish the Islamic dictatorship similar to the Communist dictatorships. The PM of Turkey wants to be the Islamic “Khalifa” so is Osama bin Laden.
Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran did achieve the title of “Imam” in Shia’ism which is equivalent to the Islamic “Khalifa” in Islamic Sunni branch.
We are suffering from the Islamic unjust dictatorship in Iran now. Ayatollah Khomeini now is the residence of Hell for his crime against the Muslim people in Iran and Iraq.
The Islamic movements are sharing the common goals. The only different is PM of Turkey wants to take different method for reaching the same gals; when the times are right he will fight the USA, Israel, EU and Russian. He is trying to fool the western countries until he reaches his goals of eliminating the Turkish General’s power first in home.
PM of Turkey never want to join the EU. His goals are to defeat the Military Generals in Turkey first; then you will see him how moderate he is.
We are saying for over one year now; what the Islamic movement wants and what the Islamic party in Turkey wants. His plan to go to EU is this. He want to show the military that the west does not like Turkey; and then he want to eliminate the military Generals powers in Turkey so he can control the military first. After that he wants to revive the Turkish holly wars of “Jihad” against the west, Israel and Russia. And declare himself Islamic “Khalifa” for life and then his son can take over after his death. They are the Islamic dictators no more no less. The Islamic movements are against technology, freedom of religions, and freedom of any thing. They do love the power to abuse the people.
The PM of Turkey and his latest acting against Israel in that meeting are just part of his goal. The Islamic movement does not have any good thing for Muslim people. They are even much worse than the Communist dictatorships. One is using religions to rule by force and the other is using labors to rule by force. But the outcomes are the same for the ruled people.
Sincerely,
Jaff Sassani
From the SKDC
jaff.skdc@googlemail.com
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