Middle Eastern national insanity?

It would seem in the area packed with Muslim countries that there's a common thread of, well, insanity.

The Muslim world claims concern, for example, over Israel pounding gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon (Hezbollah).

That's all they're doing, effectively: talking. None committing troops or military aid to the terrorists in the region. They're just doing what we used to call in the biz, "podium pounding."

The reason is obvious: Arab armies have tried to eradicate Israel repeatedly since these same armies were destroyed in 1948.

Hope springs eternal in the Muslim world that the 7.7 million Jews in Israel can be destroyed (Himmler would be proud) thus solving every one of the myriad issues confronting countries whose view of governance is stuck in the 7th Century but after losing their militaries a half dozen times and realizing that Israel is also a nuclear power that they do NOT want to believe they've got nothing to lose by pulling the nuclear pin, they're, for the most part, wisely decided to sit this one out, the nutjobs of Iran notwithstanding; but even THEY are only willing to use lackeys to do their bidding, while the democrats/Obama/Biden have provided this terrorist state billions of our taxpayer dollars to shore them up.

These countries NEVER seem to have any concerns for Israel itself: there was no condemnation to speak of for the Oct 7 hamas attack. No condemnation of the rape and murders of Israeli women and children. Nothing about the kidnapping of the 250 or so. Nothing about the years of rocket attacks emanating (without complaint by the gazan people) against Israel.

And can we remotely get past the bizarre idea these countries have... as well as the terrorist supporting scum rioting, protesting, blocking freeways and facilities as they demand the slaughter of the Israeli nation... that whatever terrorists do... whoever they murder, rape, assault or maim... Israel should just take it.... without retaliation of any kind... or nothing beyond a "tit-for-tat" proportional variety response?

Forgive the long lead-in. This post is really devoted to the Western military response to incessant Houthi (which, come to think of it, are ANOTHER Iran-backed terrorist group along with hamas and hezbollah) attacks on shipping in the region AND US military ships... and the reaction of those same muslim countries in the region claiming upset that these vessels and the private vessels in the region should just sit back and take it with a smile as opposed to providing negative reinforcement to the attackers to assist them in, perhaps, seeing the error of their ways.

In sum, the idea is that muslim extremists have an expectation that THEY should be able to attack us; while we, in turn, let them.

The result? Middle Eastern "outrage" because the United States and England have the TEMERITY to actually hit back.

Which is certainly not what they expected.

U.S.-Led Strikes Spark Outrage in Middle East

January 12, 2024 in News

Saudi Arabia Voices 'Great Concern' Over Yemen Air Strikes: Foreign Ministry

By AFP - Agence France Presse January 11, 2024 

I freely admit it. Part of that is our fault.

The vast majority of American military killed and wounded in the region were killed and wounded as a result of Iranian logistical support. We, as a nation and a military knew that almost from the get go.

Much of the weaponry and explosives used in IED's were FOB tehran.

And we, of course, did absolutely nothing about it.

Instead of chatting with Iran and telling them that if the supplies didn't stop we would systematically destroy every Iranian military/civil target in the country, early on, we just sat on our hands while later, we provided Iran with billions of our dollars to finance their weapons manufacture used to kill and wound American military personnel and others.

Like every weakness out on display to bullies, at either the personal or national level that sent Iran a message. And Iran has gratefully received that message which sadly, breaks down to American support of their terrorist agenda.

Weird, ain't it?

And that support was/is bipartisan. So, no, this isn't a rant against just the left.

This was also going on during both the Bush AND the Trump Administrations. From Iran's perspective, why SHOULDN’T they become the terrorist command and control center for the world?

WE ain't gonna do anything about it. Because we HAVEN'T done anything about it for 2 decades.

So, another Iranian client has been pushing the envelope out of Yemen. The houthi rebels have been trying to overthrow the Yemeni government for the better part of 20 years so they can turn this strategically important state into an Iranian possession.

It appears Iran's calculous, which is hardly unreasonable under the totality of circumstances is to "Gulliver" the US military to spread us as thinly as possible.

They read newspapers as much as the next guy. They know of our personnel weaknesses and see our expenditures in support of Ukraine and Israel as a further strategic weakening of US military capabilities.

Further, they see our failure to respond to their military provocations for 20 years as a blueprint for American response to these attacks.

Had we destroyed Iran's military capability in 2003, NONE of what we see here today would be happening.

But we chose to let it go. Let it go. Let it go... and this is what we face as a result.

Meanwhile the houthis are doing their best to close down shipping lanes in international waters while Iran is literally pirating ships.

Remember: ANY military response to ANY of this is "unacceptable" to the muslim world. Because, well, a major part of the muslim extremist shtick is they can do whatever they want, anywhere they want, whenever they want.

Yes, the military response to these houthi terrorists is needed and I applaud it.

Yes, we have to deal with the current reality confronting us.

But imagine what the situation would be had we acted back when it would have made a difference.

And now?

Now, I increasingly fear it's too late.