Recent comments by Henrik Ørsted

• Syria’s Hijacked Struggle

  It is revolting to see what happens there in Syria. An acquaintance had been in the country in 2008, and he saw children playing in the latest fashion outside peaceful villages http://www.beel.org/journeys/index.php?journey=2008-05_Syria.
  
  The problem is that Syria had historically a much more profound influence upon Islam than Libya, Tunisia or Egypt.
  
  This has to be borne in mind. And the backers of the terrorist armies in Syria, most of the foreign fighters actually originate from Iraq, have to be punished. And this is, as mentioned in the article Saudi-Arabia, one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. And the Saudis have the funds to interfere in US politics and sponsor their advocates in US politics.
  
  Syria needs to be cordoned off and Turkey and Iraq the main transit countries of the al-qaeda armies need to be shored up in order to sequester the terrorist at the borders. They have recently shot a turkish police officer and set a control post on the Turkish border alight.
  
  The terrorist fighters do not recognise Syria anyway, but see it in terms of a supraislamic state named Levant including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, South Turkey, Israel and parts of Iran.
  
  Well, we need to reinforce order in Syria and this we can only do by having some very tough words with the Saudis and no one else.
  
  Any further inflammation of the conflict in Syria will endanger the Russian Caucasus regions, since not a few terrorist fighters in Syria originate from there and Turkey is playing with the fire in the Northern Caucasus.
  
  If weapons are supplied to anyone, this would be the current Syrian regime. Israel has to see that for its very existence, it is paramount to join Iran, Russia and China in this matter. Everything else would mean supporting the major evil.
  
  There is no unified or organised Syrian opposition. The fighting power of any secular fighters of the Free Syrian army in terms of manpower is far too low (90 islamist jihadis toward 10 secular opposition).
  Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-contradictions-of-syria-s-civil-war-by-ribal-al-assad#WyQIqvjPVg6JcMmB.99

• Syria’s Hijacked Struggle

  It is revolting to see what happens there in Syria. An acquaintance had been in the country in 2008, and he saw children playing in the latest fashion outside peaceful villages http://www.beel.org/journeys/index.php?journey=2008-05_Syria.
  
  The problem is that Syria had historically a much more profound influence upon Islam than Libya, Tunisia or Egypt.
  
  This has to be borne in mind. And the backers of the terrorist armies in Syria, most of the foreign fighters actually originate from Iraq, have to be punished. And these is as mentioned in the article Saudi-Arabia, one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. And the Saudis have the funds to interfere in US politics and sponsor their advocates in US politics.
  
  Syria needs to be cordoned off and Turkey and Iraq the main transit countries of the al-qaeda armies need to be shored up in order to sequester the terrorist at the borders. They have recently shot a turkish police officer and set a control post on the Turkish border alight.
  
  The terrorist fighters do not recognise Syria anyway, but see it in terms of a supraislamic state named Levant including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, South Turkey, Israel and parts of Iran.
  
  Well, we need to reinforce order in Syria and this we can only do by having some very tough words with the Saudis and no one else.
  
  Any further inflammation of the conflict in Syria will endanger the Russian Caucasus regions, since not a few terrorist fighters in Syria originate from there and Turkey is playing with the fire in the Northern Caucasus.
  
  If weapons are supplied to anyone, this would be the current Syrian regime. Israel has to see that for its very existence, it is paramount to join Iran, Russia and China in this matter. Everything else would mean supporting the major evil.
  
  There is no unified or organised Syrian opposition. The fighting power of any secular fighters of the Free Syrian army in terms of manpower is far too low (90 islamist jihadis toward 10 secular opposition).
  Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-contradictions-of-syria-s-civil-war-by-ribal-al-assad#WyQIqvjPVg6JcMmB.99

• Syria’s Hijacked Struggle

  It is revolting to see what happens there in Syria. An acquaintance had been in the country in 2008, and he saw children playing in the latest fashion outside peaceful villages http://www.beel.org/journeys/index.php?journey=2008-05_Syria.
  
  The problem is that Syria had historically a much more profound influence upon Islam than Libya, Tunisia or Egypt.
  
  This has to be borne in mind. And the backers of the terrorist armies in Syria, most of the foreign fighters actually originate from Iraq, have to be punished. And these is as mentioned in the article Saudi-Arabia, one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. And the Saudis have the funds to interfere in US politics and sponsor their advocates in US politics.
  
  Syria needs to be cordoned off and Turkey and Iraq the main transit countries of the al-qaeda armies need to be shored up in order to sequester the terrorist at the borders. They have recently shot a turkish police officer and set a control post on the Turkish border alight.
  
  The terrorist fighters do not recognise Syria anyway, but see it in terms of a supraislamic state named Levant including Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, South Turkey, Israel and parts of Iran.
  
  Well, we need to reinforce order in Syria and this we can only do by having some very tough words with the Saudis and no one else.
  
  Any further inflammation to the conflict in Syria will endanger the Russian Caucasus regions, since not a few terrorist fighters in Syria originate from their and Turkey is playing with the fire in the Northern Caucasus.
  
  If weapons are supplied to anyone, this would be the current Syrian regime. Israel has to see that for its very existence, it is paramount to join Iran, Russia and China in this matter. Everything else would mean supporting the major evil.
  
  There is no unified or organised Syrian opposition. The fighting power of any secular fighters of the Free Syrian army in terms of manpower is far to low (90 islamist jihadis toward 10 secular opposition).

• Obama the European?

  I cannot really see, where Mr. Obama's vision of the United States reflects a more European view. Libertarian views, such as the flower power revolution originated in the USA after all and not in Europe. So to speak the German Greens have their roots in the US environment movement, which actually dates back to 1868 (and not 1968) when John Muir travelled the Yosemite National Park.
  
  Thus the USA, provides the impetus for Europe and not vice versa. All economic thinking, including its excesses, emerged from the the USA. The dynamics of the last financial crisis speaks volumes.
  
  Of course the United States is the beacon of democracy and human rights, which with the exception of ANZUS Treaty States and Europe has no likes in any part of the world.

• The Price of War with Iran

  Iran is certainly a country, which sticks out in a region of chaos and the loss of rule of law as the enlightened civilised world knows it. It is a country, which preserves a balance in the Middle East. It is also a big pretender on what Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims is "Islamic Awakening". Khamenei is said to be a scholar of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood. This most interesting issue, however, as to why Sayyid Qutb turned to the Muslim Brotherhood was apparently his rejection of Communism and his stay in the USA. Thus, the Muslim Brotherhood does not advocate as obvious its dislike for the USA as Iran does. The leading clergy in Iran, have a totally different background from the Egyptian brotherhood, and whereas Egypt has a much smaller and obviously more predictable Israel as its neighbour, Iran counts Turkey and Pakistan as its neighbours. Iran was involved in a nearly 10 year long war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Ironically, the leader, who granted asylum to most of the grands, who are currently in power in Iran. But living in asylum in Iraq is a far fetch from living and getting educated in the USA, like Qutb and Professor Morsi. And as to the nuclear ambitions of Iran, Simon Peres clearly said "I accept that Iran has other reasons for developing nuclear bombs, apart from its desire to destroy Israel, but we cannot ignore the risk". There are diplomatic channels between Israel and Iran and both nations can accomodate each others existence for the common good. What I consider as being much more dangerous is, however, the massive armament of the Arabic gulf states, which is reminiscent to the armament of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, once the Islamic Republic of Iran was born. My guess is that Iran is a jealous nation. Just across the Gulf, the regimes are as undemocratic as itself and treat the human rights with the same disrespect as itself. These countries, however, get all the weapons they order, get all the high tech gadgets, they want and Iran is being demonised, not because of Nuclear Arms Proliferation, but of it being different from the rest of the Middle East. Well, I reckon with the stick-and-carrot approach, Iran can be a proud nation, without losing its face. However, care has to be taken not to weaken Iran and therefore disturbing the balance in not only the Middle East, but also in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The world is round after all.