Terror Embattled
Quite dreadful, really, to read one's quotidian news-fill of suicide bombings against civilians and countries' militaries alike, along with attacks against any vestiges of religious, political, social and civil institutions and structures that are held to be offensive to the mind-sets of the attackers. It seems as though the vicious need to obliterate, to terrorize, to instill fear in the hearts of those whom a society's rulers or their theocratic masters designate as targets knows no bounds.And then there is poor Iran. It too has been suffering the effects of dastardly attacks against its sovereign right to exert its national and divinely-inspired interests - by mysterious forces beyond its current knowledge. Simply untenable, that a country cannot be permitted by those whose envy of its stature as a leading spiritual inspiration and inheritor of vast natural resources leads them to denounce its nuclear program, threatening sanctions and even - heaven forfend - invasion.
But then, what else can be expected from agents of the devil, those Crusaders and Jews whose aeons-long mission in history, let alone current life is to have succeeded in making life miserable for unassuming Muslims. Here they were, the fearfully respected Revolutionary Guards, conveying military equipment - their own latest and brilliant improvements on already-successful munitions, along with recently-acquired munitions from their supporters - from their warehouse, to be delivered to Hezbollah.
And then, what happens? They're exploded, blown up, the military convoy wrecked en route to Lebanon. What a dastardly deed. It will not go unpunished. The impact was so immense it resounded in Tehran. Although the people there have no knowledge of what it might conceivably have been, that huge concussion, for a news blackout was imposed. They might hazard a few guesses; celebratory fireworks at yet another breakthrough in speeding up uranium enrichment comes readily to mind....
Sabotage, that's what was indignantly identified as the likely cause of the explosion. Nasty work, that. And just when Iran has been feverishly engaged in ensuring that Hezbollah is sufficiently armed in preparation for a - possibly imminent - armed conflict. Should all that Western posturing and tin-pot belligerence lead to urgent plans to bomb Iran's nuclear infrastructures, it requires its proxy militias to be prepared to respond. Just doing their homework. (Failing that, all that hardware will come in handy in yet another Hezbollah attack on Israel.)
But that hasn't been the only explosion; there have been a number of others, all of which occurrences have been unnervingly vexing to the brilliant minds of the senior Revolutionary Guard commanders. A mosque in Shiraz which had proudly hosted a military exhibition - Allah and the prosecution of war twinned as a reasonable response to world hostility - had also been bombed. As well as an explosion at a missile site, which sent dozens of Iranian technicians to Allah's bosom.
It's more than likely that Iran's surrounding neighbours, Arab Sunni states, made excessively nervous by the Shi'ite kingdom's nuclear blathering have taken it upon themselves finally to signal their displeasure. Covert activities funded by a consortium of Defenders of the True Faith. Titter-titter. And it's not only Iran that has been suffering these unfortunately miserable incidents of sabotage, but others of its neighbours who support a like opinion of infidels and Jews.
Hamas, it would appear, is also blaming unidentified "terrorists" for launching explosives at their high-ranking political figures. Unidentified only to the extent that they're going on informed conjecture. It seems that the Hamas-Fatah terror militia war hasn't quite been resolved. Temporarily tamped down, but the embers somehow once again caught fire. It has, somehow, mysteriously, appeared to escalate in the wake of the Israel-Gaza ceasefire.
While Hamas and its interests are being consolidated and strengthened for a future assault upon that devil's spawn's refuge, Israel, Fatah terrorists have been terrorizing Hamas terrorists. Um, yes, yes indeed. Hamas should know; they're accusing Fatah of undermining the temporary cease-fire - hudna? - by urging their militias to sink the agreement by deciding to extend the proceedings to the West Bank, declaring the agreement void when the IDF responds to their planned mortar attacks.
Clever, but Hamas saw them coming. They no doubt also suspect the Fatah-aligned PA police - nicely trained and armed by the U.S. in support of the ongoing peace efforts between Israel and the PA, where Israel consistently undermines the proceedings by encouraging increased West Bank settlements, and the PA enthusiastically sinks the proceedings by urging their devoted supporters to turn on their "oppressors and occupiers" to find their way as celebrated martyrs - of complicity with Israel, though they've assiduously attended to traffic and petty-crime violations.
Given sufficient time, might it be too much to anticipate that all the belligerents, the Persians, the Sunni Muslims, their proxy militias, might exhaust themselves with their sectarian and internecine hatreds? It could only be a good thing for moderate and war-weary Muslims, after all. Can the rest of the world wait that long, exert sufficient disciplinary patience upon themselves?
Labels: Middle East, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, July 26, 2008
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