BOY, WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN.
SAUDI ARABIA DECIDED THERE IS A SHIITE CLERIC WE DON'T LIKE, HIS
NAME IS SHEIK NIMR AL-NIMR, LET'S EXECUTE HIM.
THEY CLAIM THAT HE
AIDED AND ABETTED TERRORISTS, THERE WAS A PROTEST, AND THE
SAUDI GOVERNMENT KILLED 20 PROTESTERS, THERE WAS SOME
POLICE, HE WAS INVOLVED -- NONSENSE.
HE IS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS A LOUDMOUTH.
THAT IS THE SAUDI
GOVERNMENT.
TO OTHER PEOPLE, MOST DECENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD,
HE IS A LEGITIMATE PROTESTER OF THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS
OPEN TO A LOT OF PROTESTS FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
I'M NOT
PICKING A SIDE HERE, THERE IS NOT A LOT OF SHIITE CLERGY I
WOULD BE INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING.
AND BY NOT A LOT I
MEAN ZERO.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF
DICTATORIAL SUNNI GOVERNMENTS LIKE THE SAUDIS I WOULD BE
INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING.
SO BOTH SIDES HAVE ISSUES.
YOU DON'T
RESOLVE THOSE ISSUES BY BEHEADING PEOPLE, UNLESS YOU ARE
SAUDI ARABIA OR ISIS.
SO SAUDI ARABIA DID.
THEY DIDN'T JUST
EXECUTE HIM, THEY BEHEADED HIM.
WHEN ISIS DOES IT I AM TOLD IT
IS THE BIGGEST DANGER IN THE WORLD, BUT WHEN A U.S. ALLY
DOES IT, WELL -- THIS IS HOW REUTERS PUT IT.
WHEN YOU HAVE TO START A SENTENCE WITH THE BIGGEST MASS
EXECUTION IN DECADES, YOU KNOW THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO END
WELL.
NOW THE SHIITE, WHICH ARE DOMINANT OBVIOUSLY IN IRAN AND
ALSO DOMINANT IN IRAQ, BY THE WAY, AND A LOT OF SHIITES IN
YEMEN, THAT IS WHY SAUDI ARABIA HAS A WAR WITH YEMEN RIGHT NOW,
AND THERE IS A SHIITE MINORITY IN SAUDI ARABIA.
AND THE
PRESIDENT OF IRAN SAID THAT WHAT THE SAUDIS DID WAS --
AND HE IS A MODERATE IN THE CONTEXT OF IRAN, OBVIOUSLY.
AND
THE GRAND AYATOLLAH IN IRAQ, WHO IS CONSIDERED MORE MODERATE AS
FAR AS GRAND AYATOLLAHS GO, SAID IT WAS AN UNJUST AGGRESSION.
NOW
WE MOVE TO THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT OVERALL, THEY SAY IT
WILL COST SAUDI ARABIA DEARLY.
HEZBOLLAH SAYS THE SAUDIS WILL SEE --
THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD SAYS THEY WILL LOOK FOR HARSH
REVENGE.
AND THEY CALL THE SAUDI GOVERNMENT A PRO-TERRORIST,
ANTI-ISLAMIC REGIME.
AND NOW WE GO TO THE GRAND AYATOLLAH IN
IRAN, AND HE SAYS --
AND LO AND BEHOLD AFTER ALL THOSE WORDS, A LOT OF ARMED
PROTESTERS SHOWED UP AT THE SAUDI EMBASSY IN TEHRAN, IRAN.
WE PICK IT
UP FROM THERE --
OR HE WAS.
OH, YOU EXECUTE A SHIITE CLERIC?
WE BURN DOWN YOUR
EMBASSY.
THE EMBASSY IS NOT COMPLETELY BURNED DOWN BUT THEY
RANSACKED IT AND LIT FIRES IN THE EMBASSY, HONESTLY THAT IS
AN ISSUE.
THE MODERATE PRESIDENT OF IRAN DID ARREST 44 PEOPLE,
SAID IT WAS UNACCEPTABLE, YOU CAN'T DO THAT -- I HAVEN'T HEARD
MUCH CONDEMNATION FROM THE GRAND AYATOLLAH YET, WHO IS MORE
POWERFUL THAN THE PRESIDENT IN IRAN.
THEY HAVE A COMPLICATED
POWER-SHARING ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE CLERGY AND THE
POLITICIANS.
NOW WE GO TO THE SAUDI REACTION TO THEIR EMBASSY
BEING BURNED, WE GO TO THEIR FOREIGN MINISTER, HE SAYS --
MEANING THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA --
IN OTHER WORDS, CLEAN UP, GO HOME.
SO THEY KICKED OUT THE
IRANIAN EMBASSY, THEY ARE NOT TALKING ANYMORE AND BURNING EACH
OTHER'S EMBASSIES DOWN, YOU ALREADY HAVE A HORRIBLE BREWING
SUNNI/SHIITE WAR IN IRAQ, WHICH GOT STARTED WHEN WE INVADED
IRAQ.
THE SUNNIS AND SHIITES HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR OVER 1000
YEARS, BUT RECENTLY THERE WERE NO HUGE SUNNI/SHIITE UPHEAVALS
AND CIVIL WARS UNTIL WE WENT INTO IRAQ AND WE HAD THE
BRILLIANT IDEA, WHY DON'T WE TOPPLE SADDAM HUSSEIN, THEN WE
WILL HAVE A DEMOCRACY THERE, AND WHO WILL WIN IN A DEMOCRACY?
ALL
RIGHT, IRAQ IS 60% SHIITE, THEY WILL WIN.
WHO WILL BE THEIR
NATURAL ALLY?
IRAN.
WE DON'T LIKE IRAN OR HEZBOLLAH, AND IRAN
FUNDS HEZBOLLAH WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST ISRAEL OFTENTIMES -- AND
THEN THE SUNNIS WILL BE SUPER MAD AND THEY WERE THE ENTIRE
IRAQI ARMY AND THEY WILL WANT TO FIGHT AGAINST THE SHIITES, AND
MAYBE THAT WILL SPREAD TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES LIKE
SYRIA -- DAMN, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
SO NOW, WE HAVE
THIS CONFLAGRATION WHERE LITERALLY THE WORLD IS ON FIRE.
WHICH BRINGS US ALL THE WAY BACK TO IRAQ.
REUTERS EXPLAINS, IN
GRAPHIC 54 --
SO NOT ONLY IS THIS A DISASTER BETWEEN IRAN AND SAUDI
ARABIA, LET ALONE ALL THE PROXY WARS LIKE IN YEMEN, BUT NOW ALL
THESE FOLKS ARE NOT NECESSARILY LOOKING TO HOLD HANDS AND FIGHT
AGAINST ISIS.
SO THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS IS ALSO WEAKENED.
WONDERFUL.
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE.
THAT
IS THE CURRENT STATE OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
BY THE WAY, WHAT IS
OUR ANSWER TO ALL THIS?
WELL, THE SAUDIS ARE OF COURSE RIGHT
BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR ALLIES.
WE HAVE TO FIGHT ISIS WHO BEHEAD
PEOPLE, BUT SAUDI ARABIA WHO BEHEADS PEOPLE IS WONDERFUL.
IN
FACT CARLY FIORINA, A REPUBLICAN WHO THINKS SHE IS RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT, WRITES --
IN OTHER WORDS, SO WHAT, THEY ARE OUR ALLY, THEY GIVE US CHEAP
OIL, THEY BEHEAD PEOPLE AND DO MASS EXECUTIONS, WHO CARES?
BEN
CARSON HAS A BETTER ANSWER, HE ALSO THINKS HE IS RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT --
THAT IS THE DEAL WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO GET RID OF IRAN'S
NUCLEAR PROGRAM, SO THOSE PEOPLE, THE GRAND AYATOLLAH WHO
IS LOOKING FOR BLOOD RIGHT NOW, DOESN'T HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO
PLAY AROUND WITH.
I WOULD CALL THAT A RARE VICTORY IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
BEN CARSON SAYS, YOU SEE THAT?
THAT CAUSED THE SAUDI
TO BEHEAD SOME SHIITES.
WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH IT?
IN
OTHER WORDS, HE IS SAYING WE, AS IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION,
MADE THE SAUDIS BEHEAD THOSE GUYS BECAUSE WE MADE A PEACE DEAL
WITH IRAN WHERE WE TOOK NUCLEAR WEAPONS AWAY.
YOU WANT TO TALK
ABOUT BEING AN APOLOGIST FOR SAUDI TERRORISM?
I THINK THAT IS
A GOOD DEFINITION OF IT RIGHT THERE.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP GIVING
WEAPONS TO BOTH SIDES?
CAN WE AT LEAST DO THAT, AT A BARE
MINIMUM?
SO FAR THE ANSWER IS NO, AND THE WORLD CONTINUES TO
BE ON FIRE.