UAE Refuses Right To Fly Over Gulf

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The United States/United Kingdom empire still imagines they can use military force to get their own way. Even as other nations resist with increasing fury, we think, if we only have big enough bombs and big enough clubs, we can force everyone to submit. But this is stupid. Riots and insurrections plague both the USA and the fomer European colonial powers. And Russia and China grow closer and closer in an alliance built to clip American and European imperial powers.

From Reuters:

The United Arab Emirates, a key U.S. ally, said on Tuesday it would not be involved in any military strike on Iran, but urged the Islamic Republic to avoid regional tensions.

"The UAE is an independent and sovereign state that rejects the use of its territories, air or regional waters to attack any country, especially if it is a neighbour and Muslim," President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan told Arab newspaper al-Hayat.

"We have informed the Iranian brothers ... that we are not party to its conflict with the United States and will not allow our territories to be used for any military, security or spy activities against it."

BANG! The door to the entire Persian Gulf swings shut in our faces! This is the end of war dreams. Even as Blair uses the captured sailors as a club to attack Iran, this peeters out due to the reality, our adventure in Lawrence of Stupidia is coming to an end.

The Iranians won a significant victory here. I'd say, they won their confrontation with us. Meanwhile, our navies continue to play war games and menace the peace.

From Prison Planet:

Paul Joseph Watson

Russian news outlets are reporting that such activity represents, "Heightened U.S. military preparations for both an air and ground operation against Iran," that closely resembles the situation immediately before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given the Iranians just days to return the marines safely before harsher steps are taken.

It's difficult to know who to trust concerning exactly whose waters the marines were in, Iraq's or Iran's, when Ahmadinejad's slender grip on power survives only by feeding his own population war propaganda, while Bush and Blair have become the very iconography of deceit in the modern age.

The USA and other European powers have parked many hostile ships just off shore of Muslim nations which the Europeans have tried to colonize and control since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Instead of Teddy Roosevelt's 'speak softly and carry a large stick' we have chosen a diplomatic philosophy of 'shock and awe' which means to 'bellow like a lunatic and wave a big weapon of mass destruction.'

This childish diplomacy is sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. There is no earthly reason for the USA to be doing this but this is the only way the religious dictatorship of Israel can exist, surrounded by Muslim dictatorships.

The only safe haven for Jews in the Middle East would be to have real democracies coupled with everyone having a Constitution that forbids mingling of Church and State. But Jews have this in America and under this Constitution, have not only flourished but enjoyed vast political influence. Instead of transplanting this wonderful system we created here, they chose the religious dictatorship terrorist state model so beloved by so many Muslim nations.

Since we are politically hitched to Israel, this means the USA is spreading religious wars and terrorism. Indeed, the entire concept of 'shock and awe' is all about terrorizing people. Our building of ever-bigger bombs, improving our nuclear arsenal, our ringing Russia and China with nuclear missiles, everything we are doing is terroristic and expansionist.

Today, we are flying military jets armed with WMD all over the Middle East in a vile attempt at scaring Iran into disarming. This is stupid. If I were a small woman and facing a gang of big men armed with many weapons, I would run to the nearest store to buy myself a nuclear missile. If these thugs were yelling they will kill me, I would shoot first, too.

So the entire concept of disarmament by threatening to nuke people is obviously demented. The people doing this should be arrested. Arrest Bush, Cheney and Blair. They are the Axis of Evil here.

Iran, unlike the USA, has been practicing diplomacy. We can't see it because it is not directed at us, it is being practiced with others. Everyone does business with the Anglo American empire so they don't want to rock that boat. And this is because these nations all run trade surpluses with the USA and want to keep this going as long as possible.

None of them like us and if we poll the populations of these nations, the hatred of the USA is intense and the thought that our actions are bankrupting us gives them all great glee. For the entire world is watching our ship sink. Far from feeling sorry for us, the day our nation goes officially bankrupt and the International Monetary Fund forces us to pay our debts while we starve to death, will be greeted with tremendous expressions of jubilation elsewhere.

All the nations we defeated in WWII will be smug. All the communist powers we defeated in the Cold War will be laughing. All the nations we have menaced will sneer.

From Xinhuanet:

Arab leaders are arriving in the Saudi capital of Riyadh for a summit due on March 28-29, during which a Riyadh-proposed Arab peace initiative is expected to be the centerpiece as the United States and Israel have recently shown interest to the plan.

At a press conference on Monday after the opening session of the Arab foreign ministerial meeting in preparations for the upcoming 19th Arab summit, Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa and host Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal have confirmed the expectation, while stressing that no amendment will be there on the Arab peace initiative.

The Saudis have many controls deep within our government starting with Bush and Cheney. Cheney's Halliburton stronghold is relocating to the United Arab Emirites, for example. The Bush clan is intimately involved with the bin Laden family too. As Bush bankrupts America, we should remember that bin Laden's plan for the USA is to bankrupt us.

Even if Bush isn't doing this intentionally, he should be arrested for having close ties to the very people destroying us. Bin Laden's brother and father both died in Texas while flying planes owned by the Bush family. The connection between flying planes crashing and the bin Ladens and Bushes are seeped in mystical connections.

Bin Laden is using various portals to prepare America for our expected crash. So now that economic situations are deteriorating here, the last thing we can do is battle bin Laden. His victory is assured thanks to traitors in the USA who thought power means allowing people to loot their own country which is why our wars are ridiculously expensive and ridiculously inept.

The Saudis know they have to stop Israel's conquest of Palestine if they want to keep their own heads. Both the Shi'ites and bin Laden's revolutionaries are eager to destroy the corrupt Saudi Royals. They, in turn, have to prove they are defenders of Islam and not dogs of Israel.

So now they will stand behind the Palestinians and begin to make demands. The tension here is obvious. We cannot dominate Islam if they are all fighting us. To prevent a growing sense of unity, we have been encouraging tribal tensions. But this is backfiring badly since they all hate us more than each other and have ended up shoving us into each other as one side then the other destroys our military on the ground.

From Forbes:

The U.S. Navy on Tuesday began its largest demonstration of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by a pair of aircraft carriers and backed by warplanes flying simulated attack maneuvers off the coast of Iran.

The maneuvers bring together two strike groups of U.S. warships and more than 100 U.S. warplanes to conduct simulated air warfare in the crowded Gulf shipping lanes.

A French naval strike group, led by the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, was operating simultaneously just outside the Gulf. But the French ships were supporting the NATO forces in Afghanistan and not taking part in the U.S. maneuvers, officials said.

This show of foce is a show of weaknesses. For right on top of our little war game, Iran plays hardball and establishes their claims on the Gulf.

From the BBC:

Satellite data proves 15 navy personnel being held in Iran were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when they were seized, UK defence officials say.
*snip*
Speaking shortly after the briefing, Mr Blair told MPs it was time to increase pressure on Iran "in order to make sure the Iranian government understands their total isolation on this issue".

I was wondering when they would put an 'x' on the spot where the dispute took place. Now all Britain has to do is be diplomatic and play the game of 'It's OK, we are not menacing you, please back down and we will too'.

Only they are not. Far from being 'isolated' on this matter, Iran's daring deeds are applauded in the streets of every Muslim nation. The leaders are put on a hot spot for they now have to choose between siding with the Christian and Jewish aggressors destroying the Iraqi people or side with Muslims. If Britain wanted those sailors returned, all they have to do is ask Muslim leaders to do some diplomacy for Britain.

This means, of course, accepting the fact that Blair, an alien who is a born again Christian, is not in charge.

While the imperial empires burn internally, it seems to me, stupid that we are wasting our energy, money and power, trying to control the streets of all Muslim lands. Since we are not welcome nor wanted, we should butt out. And then go home and stop the gangs and riots.

From Agence France Presse:

French police used tear gas to clear out 100 youths from a major Paris subway station on Tuesday after a row over a ticket at the Gare du Nord station descended into a riot.

Officers arrested at least nine people and two others were injured when the clashed with police at the station, where the mainline Eurostar and Thalys terminals are a major gateway from Paris to the rest of Europe.

Welcome to summer in the empires! I remember the Vietnam war because our cities were burning faster than cities in Vietnam that we were dropping weapons of mass destruction on! To this day, most cores of most cities in America are dead zones. I used to work with criminals from the central ward of Newark. It was a dangerous place to go back in the 1980's even. I had to have body guards. With guns.

I was one of the few white women allowed to address Nation of Islam mosques. I talked about establishing law and order and how to talk to judges who were white and how to use political power to stop the riots and rot inflicted upon the black community.

I was Mrs. Levy back then yet found I could talk to very suspicious people because I could see their point of view from the start. And this is what is missing in our Middle Eastern policies: we have the wrong point of view.

Thanks to religious bigotry and the complex mix of religion and politics in America, we have gotten off of the wrong side of the bed and now are fighting a quarter of the world's population. And with Russia and China in alliance, this could swiftly turn into half of the world's populations!

To stop this, we must stop desiring real estate in the Middle East and begin to act liberal and push for everyone to seperate religion from the state for this causes wars and destruction as our Founding Fathers knew all too well.

From the Observer:

Boyle's Los Angeles is where an estimated 120,000 gang members across five counties battle over turf, pride and drugs. It is a city of violence as a new race war escalates between new Hispanic gangs and older black groups, each trying to ethnically cleanse the other. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has referred to his city as 'the gang capital of America', has launched a crackdown on the new threat.

During the years the USA claimed we must spend nearly a trillion a year defending ourselves, we let our borders open wide and a flood of illegal immigrants came in. Now we see a repeat of disintigration of law and order in the center of all our cities. All it takes is one match to set them afire.

I have lived through race and ethnic riots. When we had one in New York City, I went to both the Nation of Islam and a collection of pan-African churches and suggested we begin to simply walk, in a large group, up and down the neighborhood and to call on everyone to put out the fires and clean up. I was the only white person doing this. I could have been killed but ignored this possiblity.

Unarmed and open, I joined the brave men and women, some of whom were very old, walking all day in the smoldering ruins. After this, I worked to establish a street patrol. Then I got everyone to join the Precinct Council because we were all worried the police would make things worse, not better.

As we go off the financial cliff, the possibility of all our cities burning and going dead is very, very real. As real estate is abandoned, the vast majority of the sub-prime loans having gone to people at the bottom of the economic ladder, keeping all our attention and money far from home in vain attempts at keeping Japan and Israel safe from their neighbors is suicidal.

Our troops are being abused, too. Not just the scandals surrounding the VA, the need to pretend wounded soldiers are eager to return to Iraq is pure fiction.
From Salon:

Hernandez says he was in no shape to train for war so soon after his injury. "I could not walk," he told Salon in an interview. He said he was amazed when he learned he was being sent to California. "Did they not realize that I'm hurt and I needed this physical therapy?" he remembered thinking. "I was told by my doctor and my physical therapist that this was crazy."

Hernandez had served two tours in Iraq, where he helped maintain communications gear in the unit's armored Bradley Fighting Vehicles. But he could not participate in war maneuvers conducted on a 1,000-square-mile mock battlefield located in the harsh Mojave Desert. Instead, when he got to California, he was led to a large tent where he would be housed. He was shocked by what he saw inside: There were dozens of other hurt soldiers. Some were on crutches, and others had arms in slings. Some had debilitating back injuries. And nearby was another tent, housing female soldiers with health issues ranging from injuries to pregnancy.

Just this week, I talked about the New York Time's article about the anti war play in a high school which was turned into a pro-war play and one item the principal was most eager to insert was a claim that a woman who had her leg blasted off wanted to go back there to fight some more!

Now the cat is out of the bag and the reality is, these poor people are being forced at gun point to go back. And like with Vietnam, this back-door drafting of the innercity poor is going to backfire the exact same way: they will come home and wage war in the streets here in America.

And like back during the Cold War, we are still in a space race. Americans forget that Russia beat us at nearly every turn except the one triumph we had: putting a man on the moon. But this time around, not only are we going bankrupt, we have lost our space program entirely. The space shuttle doesn't even pretend to fly anymore, our astronauts are a joke with the diaper-wearing nut case trying to kidnap her sexual rival in a Miss Piggy in Outerspace episode straight out of the Muppet Show.

From China News:

China and Russia have agreed to jointly send a probe to Mars and its moon, Phobos, in 2009, China News Service reported today.

Russia will launch an explorer Phobos-Grunt carrying a Chinese-made exploration device to conduct the task and take samples of Phobos soil, according to a statement signed yesterday by Sun Laiyan, chief of the China National Space Administration, and his Russian counterpart.

The go-it-alone belligerent attitude is working just great! Bush said we are going to Mars but I say, we are going straight to hell.

And Congress better impeach Bush and Cheney. Now. Time is growing short.

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Comments

[JSmith]

"I was wondering when they would put an 'x' on the spot where the dispute took place. Now all Britain has to do is be diplomatic and play the game of 'It's OK, we are not menacing you, please back down and we will too'."

What do you suggest Britain offer as ransom?

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Yes, England should pay reparations to ALL the people they conquered and exploited.

[CK]

And when the USAF decides to overfly UAE airspace, what exactly will the UAE do to stop it? A few mealy mouthed apologies a few more fiat dollars ( given the continual debasement of them maybe they should be called yugo dollars ) gifted to some sheiks and all is smoothed over.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Oh, the news is MUCH WORSE now! New story coming right up!

[DeVaul]

I just read on the Silver Bear that Russian intelligence has indicated that the US will launch a sneak attack on April 6 against Iran. It appears that the Russians are trying to alert everyone in order to stop it.

I think the other Arab countries know, and that is why they have declared "no fly zones". But this will not stop missiles from roaring over their country towards Iran. You cannot stop missiles. I think they just want deniability.

I was happy to hear about Saudi Arabia, but now I am scared because of this Russian report. The Russians correctly pointed out that once AIPAC forced Congress to delete the war authorization clause, war with Iran became a fait accompli in their minds.

The Russians seem resigned to the fact that Iran will be leveled. I doubt anyone will defend Iran. No nation cares about anyone but themselves -- except the US, which cares a great deal about Israel. Too bad Israel has no plans to return our Social Security Trust Fund to us for helping them.

[Mark Abbott]

DeVaul, I read the same thing about the Russian intel warning re: an April 6 attack on Iran (at this link.) The Russkies even specified the operation's code name, "Operation Bite," its hours (12 hrs duration, from 4 am to 4 pm local time), and of course the significance of the date (it's Good Friday, as well as a holiday in Iran), according to Tarpley (the author of the piece).

[DeVaul]

Yeah, the article I read included all of that information. It probably was the same article. Things appear on the Silver Bear a few days later than here on Elaine's site as a general rule, but they have a lot of people posting articles there, so sometimes you can see something before Elaine does.

(She might dispute that.) :)

Our government and society are so filled with liars and charlatans that I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that other world leaders are sane and logical, but this is not really true. They can be just as stupid and illogical (albeit not quite as bad as Bush -- America's first humanoid president).

I just read an article on Prison Planet(?) that the Chinese are eating aborted fetuses as a new delicasy. That is incredibly disgusting. China has serious problems, and so does Iran, but we just make them worse by constantly attacking them while ignoring our own problems.

We have, or had, the money and ability to adjust our society to face an ever-changing future, but we squander it in the most spectacular ways. How much fuel was consumed sailing a third carrier group to the other side of the world? What was the cost of that? What if we had used that money to renovate an older neighborhood, or perhaps an entire city?

We will never know. I may be the only person on my street who even knows that we have three carrier battle groups parked in the Indian Ocean. Few Americans even know this. Is that not incredible?