Is Bahrain The Next Syria?

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As Egyptian activist Ahmad Abdallah told me in Cairo a few months ago before he was hauled off to prison, “Some people say at least Egypt isn’t as bad as Syria, but this is how Syria started—with silencing liberal dissent.”

And it looks like Bahrain is following right along, abetted by Obummer's decision just a year ago to lift America's hold on selling arms to Bahrain's military. Now the dictators-in-charge there are violently cracking down big-time on all dissent, and threatening even more foolish acts. Consider:

Things began to heat up on May 30, when Sheikh Ali Salman, leader of Al Wefaq, surprisingly had his jail sentence increased on appeal from four to nine years. When U.S. government officials responded with rare public expressions of discomfort at Bahrain’s corrupt judicial system, Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa bit back angrily.“Tom Malinowski and Samantha Power should not protect themselves with the Vienna Convention of 1961 [safeguarding diplomatic immunity] if they choose to speak as activists,” said Al Khalifa, who is also a leading member of the country’s ruling family.

Talk about biting the very hand that fed you.

Obummer is the first President in American history to wage war throughout two terms; he's directly lead the military overthrow of the government of Libya, called for the overthrow of the government of Syria, and has directly participated in the horrifically devastating humanitarian nightmare that country has become.

He is also directly involved in the same humanitarian horror being visited upon Yemen currently, and his nuke deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran resulted in $1.7 billion of American taxpayer $$ "returned" to the jihadi nation, with every penny of it - as the jihadi theocracy so gleefully announced - then going directly to their jihadi military; while, at the very same time, Obummer is funneling billions more American taxpayer $$ to the Sunni Arab nations so they can "defend" themselves against the Shia Twelvers in Iran.

Talk about burning the insane candle from both ends.

Obummer has sold more American military weaponry to the world than any other President in history. How much $$ you reckon will be coming automatically his way once he leaves Office and hits the speaker trail?

Some say payback is a bitch, but the military-industrial complex crowd will make sure their payback to Obummer makes him rich, too.

And now Bahrain, fully locked and loaded - courtesy of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate arming them to the teeth - beginning to totally clamp-down, imprison, and liquidate all dissent to its despotic rule, and maybe even throw a couple of American diplomats in their third-world hooscow just to rub it in a bit more.

Thanks, Obummer.

And if Billary becomes President, she'll no doubt work the military-industrial complex room even better, even as she has to pull the 5th Fleet out of Bahrain because another two-bit dictatorship has been militarized by America to such a degree even the US Navy has no safe harbor any longer there.

How in the holy h3ll can any of you bozos keep voting for this sos? Do you not understand YOU ARE ITS ENABLERS?

Time to Move the 5th Fleet? How US Appeasement Is Undermining Bahrain’s Stability
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/201...ng-bahrains-stability/129162/?oref=d-mostread