Comments on: The Middle East: a zone of frenemies?

By: Perhaps??

Perhaps?? — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:42:04 +0000

The Middle East has a security problem, the sovereign states are Iraq and Syria, and Daesh is the security threat.
Daesh is not an insurmountable hurdle to defeat on the ground, as the Iraqi Army is proving that and the ideology campaign will move on as the money dries up. The youth will need to be occupied and given opportunities, while the world hopes that Iraq is mature enough to form states with a federal system in which federal government administers assets in a fully transparent way. Perhaps the equation of revenue back to the states is based on per head of population with a census and vote every 5 years.
Representatives may be rotated from each community to be leader. Building a country is about now, and every day it is not in place it effects the citizen.
It is hard to listen to stories of ordinary everyday people lamenting the lack of safety and security, they need to build together and fight for it.

By: Nadeem Rizvi

Nadeem Rizvi — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 06:09:04 +0000

I do not think the US and other western countries shall send their forces in the volatile regions of Iraq and Syria. They have tasted the bitterest experience in the past. They shall try to disintegrate the gulf countries to make them weaker. However, it seems it is now far-fetched.

By: ravi bhangaonlar

ravi bhangaonlar — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:18:48 +0000

Middle East problem, needless to say, is much complex than it is perceived. Vast oil reserves in this region has been the root cause. Instead of bringing glory to this region, it has cauded misery. Hagemony of west has compounded this problem. IS is misleading people, or rather taking advantage of misery to form public opinion against west. Solutions to such problems, obviously are not at all easy. However, till IS and west do not realize their misconceptions and greed, people in middle east in particular and all over the world in general are going to suffer due to this.

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By: snanglebreak

snanglebreak — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:29:37 +0000

In reply to saliyaex. This article is a synopsis or timeline article and is not really that good at all. The suggestion that the Iraqi forces that fled from ISIS in June 2014 are fantastically US-trained soldiers is to ignore the systematic weaknesses in the Iraqi army, a consequence of corruption, laziness and low morale. US soldiers would not have fled.

By: Nocturnal

Nocturnal — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:59:24 +0000

Excellent article.

Invariably the west has misunderstood the motivations of radical groups or presented them in a two dimensional way: good v evil; communist v capitalist etc.

We would do well to examine our own secular values and ensure that they are consistently applied. There are some red flags that may not seem important to moderates, but are likely to cost us dearly unless we address them – they are fuel for radicalisation back home.

The double standard of allowing Australian duel citizens to train in the IDF is one that can no longer be tolerated. This ‘symbolism’ of our hypocrisy is on display to the Arab world and does us no good.

More troubling is the religious right of our current government and the twisted path that makes the Middle East their ideological home turf where their cherished mythology was based. The predominance of hard line religious politicians in our cabinet is dangerous. Their decisions are coloured by the same bronze-aged belief system that is core to the religious-based conflict in the region.

The ideologies that caused the conflicts are not going to solve them. Australian politics must be secular and be seen to be secular. Currently it is not and we are sleepwalking into long term religious tension with Indonesia and the Middle East because our politicians are religious conservatives prepared to chain Australia’s identity to their own mythology while fighting against another that they do not understand.

By: saliyaex

saliyaex — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:30:21 +0000

Truly the questions on Middle east, Muslim countries & Terrorism is becoming never ending questions. Do really feel that the responsible parties are actually not addressing the issues in the correct way. This article is really good.