Iran and the Iraq Mess

Iran is a major instigator in the problems in Iraq. This has been well documented. One of the motivations may be they want to increase Shia dominance in the region. But there is another reason even more obvious. It’s all about oil.

Iran’s oil exports are plummeting at 10pc a year on lack of investment and could be exhausted within a decade, depriving the world economy of its second-biggest source of crude supplies.

A report by the US National Academy of Sciences said rickety infrastructure dating back to the era of the Shah had crippled output, while local fuel use was rising at 6pc a year.

“Their domestic demand is growing at the highest rate of any country in the world,” said Prof Roger Stern, an Iran expert at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

When Saddam was overthrown it created a power vacuum. And those nations who were held at bay by Saddam figured they could pull a guerrilla war, which we would inevitably bow out of, thanks to the Democrats propensity for bailing at the sign of trouble. Of course, this war is costing us insane amounts of money. And we’re forced to try to get the Iraqs to defend their own country. Which they supposedly wanted. I mean, wasn’t that the big leftie story? That the Iraqis want us out and that’s why we’re fighting us?

Wrong. Ba’athist holdouts may have been motivated that way. But al-Qaeda wants to kill Shiites and non-Muslims. Iranians want to kill Sunnis and take over. It’s greedy relatives trying to carve up a rich man’s estate. We’re in the middle.

The biggest problem we have is Iran. But what to do? We can’t invade. We have enough trouble holding on to Iraq and Afghanistan. If the western nations were smart they would help us solve the problem, but many are too busy looking the other way or selling Iran nuclear power technology.

Arab countries who have a lot to lose by a powerful Iran need to step in to help. Chide the French all you want, but it’s the Arabs who really are in bigger peril. The Taliban want to overthrow the Arab monarchies and the Iranians have dreams of their former empire. Neither of which is good for world peace, And none of this is our fault.

Saddam would have fallen sooner or later. Those countries who don’t help us are in for a world of hurt.

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