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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters
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Three of the five militia leaders who attended the protest at the U.S. Embassy, from left to right: Hadi Al-Amiri, Qais al-Khazali, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis (Memri)
Happy New Year everyone!
A detachment of 100 Marines are deploying from Kuwait to Iraq to
reinforce security at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Hundreds more
American soldiers are planned for deployment. The Baghdad embassy is
the largest US embassy in the world.
On Tuesday, hundreds of pro-Iranian Iraqis, led by Qais al-Khazali,
stormed the embassy. There was some property destruction, and some
fires were set, but the embassy was not evacuated.
The US ambassador to Iraq, Matthew Tueller, was away on a trip, but
said that he is immediately returning to the embassy. According to
one analyst, Behnam Ben Taleblu, "It's important for him to come back
because it would be a show of force that America is not going to
flinch in the face of this pressure."
The attack on the US embassy was led by Qais al-Khazali, founder of
the Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Asaib Ahl al Haq militia,
responsible for hostage-taking and the killing of U.S. soldiers.
However, al-Khazali's terrorists have also won seats in Iraq's
parliament, under pressure from Iran.
The attack was a response to US airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah
terrorists that have been attacking American bases with artillery, and
on Friday killed an American contractor. (See yesterday's article,
"31-Dec-19 World View -- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury"
)
According to al-Khazali: "Americans are unwanted in Iraq. They are a
source of evil, and we want them to leave."
For months, there have been massive anti-Iran protests in Iraq,
threatening to completely distabilize the Iraqi government which is
mostly dominated by Iran. Leaders of these protests on Tuesday made
it clear that they do not agree with al-Khazali, and that their
protests had absolutely nothing to do with and had no relation to the
attacks on the US Embassy.
****
**** Mainstream media reactions
****
As usual, reporters with the mainstream media stumbled over themselves
in a rush to make one idiotic statement after another.
The NY Times was heavily criticized after it called the US embassy
attackers "mourners" in an idiotic tweet: "Hundreds of Iraqi mourners
tried to storm the United States Embassy in Baghdad, shouting 'Down,
down USA!,' in response to deadly American airstrikes this week that
killed 25 fighters."
Chris Murphy is a 46-year-old Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee. Two months ago I heard him on giving a speech on
al-Jazeera that was so idiotic that I wrote an article on the
Generational Dynamics forum 23-Oct-2019 World View: The stupidest person in Congress - Chris Murphy. The occasion was a speech where Murphy blamed the deep
historic split in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) between Saudi
Arabia and Qatar on Donald Trump. The concept is so idiotic that
al-Jazeera just played the sound byte without saying a word about it.
Now Chris Murphy is blaming the attack on the US embassy in Tehran on
Donald Trump: "Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle
East. No one fears us, no one listens to us."
It's not surprising that a NY Times reporter would say something so
dumb as to call the Shia terrorists "mourners." Most of these
reporters are kids out of college where they majored in women's
studies or sociology, following years of declining SAT scores,
and most of them probably couldn't find Iraq on a map.
But I'm singling Chris Murphy out because he says unbelievably stupid
things even though he's been on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
for six years, and should know better. He's supposed to be an expert.
He's supposed to be making American foreign policy. But he's an
idiot. This goes we'll beyond ignorance into sheer stupidity.
In 2006, the Congressional Quarterly and the London Times conducted a
survey of Mideast experts (Democrats and Republicans), and found that
they couldn't answer simple questions like whether al-Qaeda was a
Sunni or Shia organization. (As I recall, most thought they were
Shia.) You know, I really do despair that the country is being run by
total idiots. And the "experts" in China are also idiots. But this
is why we're headed for World War III.
There's a larger picture here. There are a lot of people, Republicans
and Democrats, like Murphy, who believe that if any event occurs
anywhere in the world, then it occurred because either the President
of the United States did something or didn't do something.
What Generational Dynamics says, and what has been proven over and
over again, is that major events in the world have absolutely nothing
to do with the US president except as a target of convenient political
blame.
There are deep-seated hatreds in the Mideast going back millennia, and
they keep bubbling to the surface every few decades in the form of a
war. In particular, despite what Murphy says, the split in the GCC
had nothing to do with the president, and the attack on the embassy is
based on Iran-Iraq animosity unrelated to America, and closely related
to the extremely bloody and vicious Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s.
****
**** The link to the 1979 attack on US embassy in Tehran
****
In yesterday's article, I wrote that it seemed likely that the attacks
by Kataib Hezbollah on American bases were done purposely to bait the
United States, and force a response. Since the US has no choice but
to respond to a military attack on its base, especially when an
American is killed, the attack achieved that purpose.
Despite all the mainstream media nonsense, Iran is deeply in trouble.
In recent months, there have been thousands of anti-government
protesters in Iran, and thousands of anti-Iran protesters in Iraq.
This is increasingly a threat to Iran's control of Iraq's government,
and even a threat to the Islamic regime inside Iran itself.
As I've said many times over the years, the standard playbook in Iran
is to repeat the Iranian Hostage Crisis that took place in the context
of Iran's civil war in 1979. At that time, Iranian terrorists stormed
the American embassy in Tehran, making the terrorist leadership of
Iran into international heroes.
The people in the leadership in 1979 were young and fun-loving,
willing to slit somebody's throat on a bet. Today those leaders are
very old geezers, still willing to split anyone's throat, but now
desperate to hold onto power. And like a person who tries to relive
the most exciting erotic experience of his childhood, the old geezers
in Iran are trying to trying to relive their fun-loving attack on the
US embassy in Tehran in 1979.
One of the terrorist leaders of Tuesday's attack, Abu Alaa Al-Walai,
leader of Kata'ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada, tweeted the following:
<QUOTE>"The popular mobilization forces, more accurately the
mobilized people, surrounded today the embassy of evil in Baghdad
and will soon surround the camps and headquarters of the
U.S. killers that are spread all over the Iraqi lands. ...
[The demonstrators will go further to surround] the embassies of
[America's] tails and submissive countries, [including Arabia, the
UAE, and Bahrain].
The siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran back in 1979 extends to
today's siege of the embassy in Baghdad, 2019. It summarizes the
history: Allah will bring victory to those who support
Him."<END QUOTE>
Notice two things about this statement. The obvious one is linking
Tuesday's embassy attack to the 1979 embassy attack.
But also notice the reference to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. These are the members of the GCC opposing
Qatar, and they're also heavily involved in opposing the
Iran-supported Houthis in the Yemen War. So Tuesday's attack on the
US embassy touches on many deep divisions among the Mideast countries.
So now, based on multiple analyst descriptions, we can put together a
more complete narrative of Tuesday's attack on the US embassy:
Iran and Iraq are still in a generational Awakening era, and the most
likely scenario now is that these anti-embassy attacks will fizzle
fairly quickly.
Once again, Happy New Year everyone! However, the decade doesn't
begin until 1/1/2021, so don't celebrate that yet.
John Xenakis is author of: "World View: Iran's Struggle for Supremacy
-- Tehran's Obsession to Redraw the Map of the Middle East"
(Generational Theory Book Series, Book 1), September 2018, Paperback:
153 pages, over 100 source references, $7.00, https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Suprem...732738610/
Sources:
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Iraq, Iran,
Hadi Al-Amiri, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis
Qais al-Khazali, Asaib Ahl al Haq,
Kataib Hezbollah, KH, Mohammed Mohieh, Hezbollah Brigades - Iraq,
Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC,
Iran/Iraq war, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Matthew Tueller, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Chris Murphy,
Abu Alaa Al-Walai, Kata'ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Bahrain
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters
- Mainstream media reactions
- The link to the 1979 attack on US embassy in Tehran
****
**** US sends troops to Baghdad to defend embassy from Iranian rioters
****
Three of the five militia leaders who attended the protest at the U.S. Embassy, from left to right: Hadi Al-Amiri, Qais al-Khazali, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis (Memri)
Happy New Year everyone!
A detachment of 100 Marines are deploying from Kuwait to Iraq to
reinforce security at the US Embassy in Baghdad. Hundreds more
American soldiers are planned for deployment. The Baghdad embassy is
the largest US embassy in the world.
On Tuesday, hundreds of pro-Iranian Iraqis, led by Qais al-Khazali,
stormed the embassy. There was some property destruction, and some
fires were set, but the embassy was not evacuated.
The US ambassador to Iraq, Matthew Tueller, was away on a trip, but
said that he is immediately returning to the embassy. According to
one analyst, Behnam Ben Taleblu, "It's important for him to come back
because it would be a show of force that America is not going to
flinch in the face of this pressure."
The attack on the US embassy was led by Qais al-Khazali, founder of
the Iran-backed Shia terrorist group Asaib Ahl al Haq militia,
responsible for hostage-taking and the killing of U.S. soldiers.
However, al-Khazali's terrorists have also won seats in Iraq's
parliament, under pressure from Iran.
The attack was a response to US airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah
terrorists that have been attacking American bases with artillery, and
on Friday killed an American contractor. (See yesterday's article,
"31-Dec-19 World View -- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury"
)
According to al-Khazali: "Americans are unwanted in Iraq. They are a
source of evil, and we want them to leave."
For months, there have been massive anti-Iran protests in Iraq,
threatening to completely distabilize the Iraqi government which is
mostly dominated by Iran. Leaders of these protests on Tuesday made
it clear that they do not agree with al-Khazali, and that their
protests had absolutely nothing to do with and had no relation to the
attacks on the US Embassy.
****
**** Mainstream media reactions
****
As usual, reporters with the mainstream media stumbled over themselves
in a rush to make one idiotic statement after another.
The NY Times was heavily criticized after it called the US embassy
attackers "mourners" in an idiotic tweet: "Hundreds of Iraqi mourners
tried to storm the United States Embassy in Baghdad, shouting 'Down,
down USA!,' in response to deadly American airstrikes this week that
killed 25 fighters."
Chris Murphy is a 46-year-old Democrat on the Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee. Two months ago I heard him on giving a speech on
al-Jazeera that was so idiotic that I wrote an article on the
Generational Dynamics forum 23-Oct-2019 World View: The stupidest person in Congress - Chris Murphy. The occasion was a speech where Murphy blamed the deep
historic split in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) between Saudi
Arabia and Qatar on Donald Trump. The concept is so idiotic that
al-Jazeera just played the sound byte without saying a word about it.
Now Chris Murphy is blaming the attack on the US embassy in Tehran on
Donald Trump: "Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle
East. No one fears us, no one listens to us."
It's not surprising that a NY Times reporter would say something so
dumb as to call the Shia terrorists "mourners." Most of these
reporters are kids out of college where they majored in women's
studies or sociology, following years of declining SAT scores,
and most of them probably couldn't find Iraq on a map.
But I'm singling Chris Murphy out because he says unbelievably stupid
things even though he's been on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
for six years, and should know better. He's supposed to be an expert.
He's supposed to be making American foreign policy. But he's an
idiot. This goes we'll beyond ignorance into sheer stupidity.
In 2006, the Congressional Quarterly and the London Times conducted a
survey of Mideast experts (Democrats and Republicans), and found that
they couldn't answer simple questions like whether al-Qaeda was a
Sunni or Shia organization. (As I recall, most thought they were
Shia.) You know, I really do despair that the country is being run by
total idiots. And the "experts" in China are also idiots. But this
is why we're headed for World War III.
There's a larger picture here. There are a lot of people, Republicans
and Democrats, like Murphy, who believe that if any event occurs
anywhere in the world, then it occurred because either the President
of the United States did something or didn't do something.
What Generational Dynamics says, and what has been proven over and
over again, is that major events in the world have absolutely nothing
to do with the US president except as a target of convenient political
blame.
There are deep-seated hatreds in the Mideast going back millennia, and
they keep bubbling to the surface every few decades in the form of a
war. In particular, despite what Murphy says, the split in the GCC
had nothing to do with the president, and the attack on the embassy is
based on Iran-Iraq animosity unrelated to America, and closely related
to the extremely bloody and vicious Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s.
****
**** The link to the 1979 attack on US embassy in Tehran
****
In yesterday's article, I wrote that it seemed likely that the attacks
by Kataib Hezbollah on American bases were done purposely to bait the
United States, and force a response. Since the US has no choice but
to respond to a military attack on its base, especially when an
American is killed, the attack achieved that purpose.
Despite all the mainstream media nonsense, Iran is deeply in trouble.
In recent months, there have been thousands of anti-government
protesters in Iran, and thousands of anti-Iran protesters in Iraq.
This is increasingly a threat to Iran's control of Iraq's government,
and even a threat to the Islamic regime inside Iran itself.
As I've said many times over the years, the standard playbook in Iran
is to repeat the Iranian Hostage Crisis that took place in the context
of Iran's civil war in 1979. At that time, Iranian terrorists stormed
the American embassy in Tehran, making the terrorist leadership of
Iran into international heroes.
The people in the leadership in 1979 were young and fun-loving,
willing to slit somebody's throat on a bet. Today those leaders are
very old geezers, still willing to split anyone's throat, but now
desperate to hold onto power. And like a person who tries to relive
the most exciting erotic experience of his childhood, the old geezers
in Iran are trying to trying to relive their fun-loving attack on the
US embassy in Tehran in 1979.
One of the terrorist leaders of Tuesday's attack, Abu Alaa Al-Walai,
leader of Kata'ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada, tweeted the following:
<QUOTE>"The popular mobilization forces, more accurately the
mobilized people, surrounded today the embassy of evil in Baghdad
and will soon surround the camps and headquarters of the
U.S. killers that are spread all over the Iraqi lands. ...
[The demonstrators will go further to surround] the embassies of
[America's] tails and submissive countries, [including Arabia, the
UAE, and Bahrain].
The siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran back in 1979 extends to
today's siege of the embassy in Baghdad, 2019. It summarizes the
history: Allah will bring victory to those who support
Him."<END QUOTE>
Notice two things about this statement. The obvious one is linking
Tuesday's embassy attack to the 1979 embassy attack.
But also notice the reference to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. These are the members of the GCC opposing
Qatar, and they're also heavily involved in opposing the
Iran-supported Houthis in the Yemen War. So Tuesday's attack on the
US embassy touches on many deep divisions among the Mideast countries.
So now, based on multiple analyst descriptions, we can put together a
more complete narrative of Tuesday's attack on the US embassy:
- Iran is in deep trouble because of massive anti-government
protests in Iran, and anti-Iran protests in Iraq.
- In order to control the public narrative, Iran's Iran
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ordered Kataib Hezbollah (KH) to
attack American bases, which it has done dozens or hundreds of times
in the last few months.
- Finally KH struck gold -- and killed an American on Friday,
forcing an American response.
- American airstrikes killed 27 KH terrorists, along with weapons
stores.
- Iran ordered Qais al-Khazali to mobilize his terrorists and attack
the US embassy in Baghdad.
- The plan was successful to this extent: The media is now talking
about the embassy attack, rather than the massive anti-Iran
protests.
Iran and Iraq are still in a generational Awakening era, and the most
likely scenario now is that these anti-embassy attacks will fizzle
fairly quickly.
Once again, Happy New Year everyone! However, the decade doesn't
begin until 1/1/2021, so don't celebrate that yet.
John Xenakis is author of: "World View: Iran's Struggle for Supremacy
-- Tehran's Obsession to Redraw the Map of the Middle East"
(Generational Theory Book Series, Book 1), September 2018, Paperback:
153 pages, over 100 source references, $7.00, https://www.amazon.com/World-View-Suprem...732738610/
Sources:
- Protesters storm US embassy compound in Baghdad ::xwla-12/3 (Al-Jazeera, 31-Dec-2019)
- Protesters attack US embassy in Baghdad after airstrikes ::xwla-12/3 (CNN, 31-Dec-2019)
- 100 U.S. Marines, two Apache helicopters reinforcing embassy in Baghdad after attack (Marine Corps Times, 31-Dec-2019)
- Qais al Khazal / Iran-backed terrorist-turned-politician leads demonstration against US Embassy in Iraq (Washington Examiner, 31-Dec-2019)
- Baghdad embassy attack: US will protect and defend its people, says Michael Pompeo (ANI, India, 1-Jan-2020)
- Trump warns Iran following riots at Iraqi embassy (Israel National News, 31-Dec-2019)
- ‘Not going to flinch’: US ambassador to Iraq returning to embassy in Baghdad (Washington Examiner, 31-Dec-2019)
- New York Times slammed for labeling embassy-storming militants as 'mourners' (Washington Examiner, 31-Dec-2019)
- Liberal Pundits Are Calling US Embassy Protests In Iraq Trump’s Benghazi (Daily Caller, 31-Dec-2019)
- The Problem With a Host Country Failing to Protect Its Embassies (The Atlantic, 31-Dec-2019)
- Trump blames Iran as protests erupt outside U.S. embassy in Iraq (Reuters, 31-Dec-2019)
- Reactions To Attack On U.S. Embassy – PMU Leader: 'The Siege Of The U.S. Embassy In Tehran Back In 1979 Extends To Today's Siege Of The Embassy In Baghdad' (Memri, 31-Dec-2019)
Related Articles:
- American airstrikes on Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah provoke international fury (31-Dec-2019)
- Spiraling bloodbath in Iraq, as anti-Iran and anti-government riots spread (29-Nov-2019)
- Anti-Iran, anti-government protests spread across Iraq (03-Nov-2019)
- Riots in Iraq's Basra evoke fault lines of 1980s Iran-Iraq war (09-Sep-2018)
- Brief generational history of Iran and Saudi Arabia (21-May-2017)
- Guess what? British politicians and journalists are just as ignorant as Americans (14-Jan-2007)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Iraq, Iran,
Hadi Al-Amiri, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis
Qais al-Khazali, Asaib Ahl al Haq,
Kataib Hezbollah, KH, Mohammed Mohieh, Hezbollah Brigades - Iraq,
Popular Mobilization Forces, PMF, Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC,
Iran/Iraq war, Iranian Hostage Crisis,
Matthew Tueller, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Chris Murphy,
Abu Alaa Al-Walai, Kata'ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, UAE, Bahrain
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