Murawiec on redrawing the lines
In a great interview about the dark kingdom of Saudi Arabia, posted November 22, 2005 at National Review online, headlined“Talibans with Oil and a Good P.R. Company,” the following exchange took place:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: What do you anticipate Saudi Arabia looking like in ten years?
Murawiec: Split in its original component parts conquered between 1910 and 1934 by Ibn Saud as his sword was carving him an empire: Hasa, the predominantly Shiite eastern province with the oil, along the Gulf coast; Hijaz, the Red Sea province open to international trade since the dawn of history; Asir, largely Shiite, brutally wrested from Yemen... and these segments then trying to enter some form of association, perhaps with others in the peninsula. The Soviet Union had been born in 1921, and Yugoslavia too: They were older, when they toppled, than Saudi Arabia now is.
The terror masters in Iran and Saudi Arabia are imperialist oppressors, and having gotten used to oppressing the weak and poor, they'd like nothing more to oppress the strong and rich, like the United States. King Abdullah and Ayatollah Khameini aren't practiced at hiding, like Saddam was, and to save their skins you can be pretty sure they'd issue the orders not to resist the Marines as they liberate the Shia Arabs in Khuzestan and the 82nd Airborned as they liberate the Shia Arabs in Hasa. With the Anglosphere (including India) plus Japan and (Merkel's so good we ought to think about it) Germany administering the oil revenues, there'd be no more unearned wealth backing terrorists or nuclear proliferation in either country.
If Iran's Kurds and Azeris want to join Iraq's Kurds and Azerbaijan's Azeris, then perhaps we could convince them all to join some kind of association with the Persians and the Wahabbis, but it would have to be an association where Islamic radicals from Riyadh and Qom never get their hands on any oil money. If they want to export their fanaticism, let them figure out how to make that pay.
Kathryn Jean Lopez: What do you anticipate Saudi Arabia looking like in ten years?
Murawiec: Split in its original component parts conquered between 1910 and 1934 by Ibn Saud as his sword was carving him an empire: Hasa, the predominantly Shiite eastern province with the oil, along the Gulf coast; Hijaz, the Red Sea province open to international trade since the dawn of history; Asir, largely Shiite, brutally wrested from Yemen... and these segments then trying to enter some form of association, perhaps with others in the peninsula. The Soviet Union had been born in 1921, and Yugoslavia too: They were older, when they toppled, than Saudi Arabia now is.
The terror masters in Iran and Saudi Arabia are imperialist oppressors, and having gotten used to oppressing the weak and poor, they'd like nothing more to oppress the strong and rich, like the United States. King Abdullah and Ayatollah Khameini aren't practiced at hiding, like Saddam was, and to save their skins you can be pretty sure they'd issue the orders not to resist the Marines as they liberate the Shia Arabs in Khuzestan and the 82nd Airborned as they liberate the Shia Arabs in Hasa. With the Anglosphere (including India) plus Japan and (Merkel's so good we ought to think about it) Germany administering the oil revenues, there'd be no more unearned wealth backing terrorists or nuclear proliferation in either country.
If Iran's Kurds and Azeris want to join Iraq's Kurds and Azerbaijan's Azeris, then perhaps we could convince them all to join some kind of association with the Persians and the Wahabbis, but it would have to be an association where Islamic radicals from Riyadh and Qom never get their hands on any oil money. If they want to export their fanaticism, let them figure out how to make that pay.
posted by Mark White at 11:12 AM
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