What will the Domino effect be of a democratized Arab world?
United States Senators (John McCain, John Kerry, Joe Lieberman) talk about democracy for Arab nations as if it is a good thing. No one is talking about the possible impact of unfriendly Arab nations and the possible loss of oil resources for the United States and Europe. No one is talking about the impact of unfriendly Arab nations upon Israel.
The question of U.S. national interest was posed repeatedly by Bob Schieffer on his March 6, 2011 Face the Nation program. He spoke with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the well-respected New York Times columnist, who recently returned from Libya, provides analysis on the Middle East’s new future.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7358632n&tag=contentMain;contentBody
Not in the video, Mr. Friedman told Mr. Schieffer he expected an end to the Saudi Arabian monarchy sooner rather than later. What was not discussed about the wave of freedom and democracy sweeping across Arab nations is the impact on Israel. There appears to be widespread hatred of Israel by most Arabs. Furthermore many Arabs hate the West and the United States in particular.
From Wikipedia: Israel is widely believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).[1] The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program.[2] Officially Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons.
Recent televised interviews with the current prime minister and foreign minister revealed nothing. Neither would confirm nor deny that they have and WMD. In fact the foreign minister implied that it is in their interest to have everyone believe they have such weapons.
Search the internet and you will find a variety of articles that contend that Israel does have WMD. The possibility that they do does act as a deterrent to any major attack by any potential enemy. After all, at the end of the day wouldn’t the Israeli government use WMD if their very existence was threatened?
America’s call for a democratized world has implications that have apparently not been thought out with precision. Or have they? Putting Israel aside. What would happen to the United States if Saudi Arabia stopped its oil shipments? Is democracy for Arab nations more important than oil? Perhaps our government knows the answers but have but have not been shared with its citizens. Neither the press, not even Wiki Leaks seems to know.
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