[batavia-news] United States eyes a Shi'ite-led West Asia

 

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-02-301013.html

 

Oct 30, '13

 

SPEAKING FREELY

United States eyes a Shi'ite-led West Asia
By Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami

Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing.

The tumultuous Middle East is going through a bloody transition where it is increasingly difficult to draw a line between friends, foes, allies, and adversaries, through its origins can be found on the regional map and the creation of nation-states by victorious Western powers after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

The actions of the United States-led Western block helped shape present-day Sunni monarchies and despots around the pivot of the oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and two secularist non-Arab regional powers, Turkey and Iran. They stabilized the Middle East

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