Senator Clinton thinks she is safe in attacking Barack Obama’s lack of experience in national security and foreign affairs. In reality, Senator Clinton is on thin ice.
First, thanks to Senators Clinton and McCain, who shares Clinton's strong pro-Kosovo bias, the US has arrived in a blind alley in the Balkans by supporting Kosovo, Albania, and Croatia, all allies of Iran and Germany. The new US adversaries in the Balkans have become Serbia and its allies -- Russia, China, and the new states carved out of Yugoslavia – i.e., Macedonia, Montenegro, and the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina.
In a huge setback for US policy, not a single one of these ex-Yugoslav states has recognized Kosovo. These ex-Yugoslav states refuse to recogize Kosovo because they fear Kosovo's pan-Albanian agenda, Kosovo's territorial demands on Macedonia and Montenegro, and Kosovo's role as a stalking horse for Iran and Germany/Croatia.
Likewise in the Middle East, Clinton and McCain are in lockstep in supporting Germany and Iran. The German-Iranian-Clinton/McCain plan is to elevate Iran as the new Middle East superpower. Meanwhile, the US is weakening and marginalizing the Arab states. The US intends to weaken the Arab states by partitioning Iraq between the Kurds and Iranians. The Kurds would take Kirkuk and its oil, as well as northern Iraq including Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Meanwhile, Iran would take Basra and southern Iraq.
At one stroke, Iran would pauperize Iraq (by losing Basra the Iraqi government would lose most of its hard currency earnings); vastly increase Iran’s national wealth; collapse the US/UN sanctions against Iran; position Iran to open up an overland route via Iraq and Syria with which to supply Hamas and Hezbollah; and position Iran to dominate the Persian Gulf.
The US betrayal of Iraq to Iran is most apparent in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Whoever controls Mosul controls Kirkuk and all of northern Iraq. Mosul is four-fifths Sunni Arab, as is Ninevah province. Instead of turning Mosul and Nineveh provincde over to the Sunnis, the US has turned Mosul over to the Kurds and their Iranian partners.
For example, under the pretext of US operations against al-Qaeda, the US is arming the Kurdish pershmerga militia in Mosul and reinforcing Iraqi military positions in Mosul by bringing in Kurdish troops.
Furthermore, the US is suppressing the militant Sunni groups in Mosul that want to fight Iran. One of the leading Sunni anti-Iran resistance groups is the Kirkuk Liberation Front (KLF). Last week the Iraqi government invited Iran’s Nazi president Ahmadinejad for a two-day visit to Baghdad, a policy that was rejected by most Iraqi Sunnis. During Ahmadinejad’s visit to Baghdad, he was protected by the Kurdish peshmerga militia, the number one US ally in Mosul. Meanwhile, the pro-Sunni Kirkuk Liberation Front (good for them!) issued a statement calling the Iranian occupation a “poisoned dagger” for Iraq.
In short, under the Clinton-McCain-Bush policy, the US has betrayed Iraq to Iran and the Kurds, as shown in Mosul, Iraq’s second most important city following Baghdad.
Finally, Clinton and McCain are in lockstep in betraying Latin America, in view of the expansion of Iran’s presence in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Clinton and McCain have been silent as Iran consolidates influence and strengthens its terrorist capabilities.
In short, the Clinton-McCain-Bush policies have led the US into a blind alley in Kosovo, Iraq and Bolivia. What is worse is that the US policy imposed by Clinton and McCain will soon destroy the stability of Kosovo, Iraq, and Bolivia.
Iraq will implode by May-June 2008 as the fight for Kirkuk provokes war between Turkey and Iraq, as well as war within Iraq between the Kurds, the Sunnis, and the Shi’ites. The issue of the status of Kirkuk-- an Iraqi city which Clinton, McCain and Bush have all promised to the Kurds, along with Kirkuk’s vast oil reserves -- will be the detonator for the new Iraqi conflicts.
Moreover, Albanian Kosovo will implode as Serbia, backed by Russia and China – annexes the Serbian populated districts of northern Kosovo. Third, Bolivia will implode as one-half of Bolivia bordering Brazil and Argentina, declares full political independence from the Evo Morales government in La Paz.
In summary, the Clinton-McCain-Bush policies point the way to crisis, not stability, in Kosovo, Iraq and Bolivia. Senator Obama and all of us should welcome the debate on foreign affairs.
