Analyst: Long term US goal; Merge Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt with GCC to counter Iran

U.S. plan to merge Iraq and Jordan and Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council

Saw Anthony Nyukrk in the analysis of it, that the United States is arming Saudi Arabia sophisticated weapons by about a secret, and deal selectively with the current events in the region, noting that the project “Dialogue for the security of the Gulf,” launched by the Bush administration has long-term goal, is to include Iraq, Egypt and Jordan to the Gulf Cooperation Council to get to work the front counter to Iran.

And began by analytical essay, published in the magazine (Eurasia Review), saying that on the 19th of May last, President Barack Obama said that “extraordinary change” sweeping the Middle East.

But the silence of the U.S. president for signs of curbing the revolution in the Middle East profoundly disturbing, this silence does not come from the White House but also of the leaders of the Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and the media, but there is deafening silence about particular about the arms deal, signed last year with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Nyukrk, a co-author in the Journal of the center of foreign policy and history professor at the Faculty of Philander Smith, that in the 20 of October 2010, after months of talks, said the Obama administration, in the framework of the “foreign arms sales,” its intention to allow for many companies, the U.S. arms arms sales to Saudi Arabia worth more than $ 60 billion over 15 years, pending ratification by Congress.

In addition to this Saudi fighter aircraft F-15s, is expected the proposed contract to approve the sales of small arms and rocket launchers, and equipment reconnaissance aircraft F-15 S with 84 pieces, and 190 military helicopter, and 12.667 rockets, 18.350 bomb. Also included 1.000 direct attack munitions, equipment and satellite-guided, that will turn ordinary bombs into smart bombs.

He continues by saying that the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Andrew Shapiro, said that this agreement indicates that the Riyadh and Washington will help to “deter and repel threats [targeting] their borders and oil infrastructure.”

The writer adds that the assistant of defense for global security affairs, Alexander Vershbow, for his part, and without reference to ammunition offensive direct, he considered that the proposed transaction would not pose a threat to the superiority of Israeli military, and the curious, the author says, that the Israelis have no absolutely no objection.

Moreover, not provided in Congress, as Nyukrk, any resolution opposing the deal during the thirty-day deadline set by the law of control of arms exports for the year 1976, with the exception of a question session.

And confirms the writer to obtain information on the arms deal Saudi Arabia is not easy, because the Foreign Affairs Committee House of Representatives and the Agency for Cooperation Defense Security, which oversee the “defense trade,” and the Office of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, a member of Congress, a prominent critic of Saudi Arabia, all of them declined to comment on this matter. But a report in the Journal (Wall Street Journal) says that “a deal of billions Arabia sixty to buy fighter jets F-15 has won first place on the recommendation of Congress, but the deals pending include naval ships and missile defense systems to Saudi Arabia and other partners in the region, has not been finalized yet may face some difficulties in Congress. ”

The author warns that the references to recent arms deals with Saudi officials, publicly issued in the U.S. government was vague. In 3 of last May, admitted Andrew Shapiro, in a speech to defense trade consulting team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that policy makers must work out the expense of changing the “geopolitical scene” in the Middle East.

But Shapiro added that the American administration “remains committed to the security of the Gulf, which was confirmed last year, when we made the largest defense contract in history, trading with Saudi Arabia.”

The writer cites figures documentary says that Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the region in the field of importing weapons from 1990 until 2009.

And shows by his conviction that the goal long term what it called the administration of George Bush a “Gulf Security Dialogue” of 2006 is in the integration of the Gulf Cooperation Council “m. T.. X. +3”, Namely Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, in the defense system are lined up against Iran, the Israelis also lead role in the perpetuation of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East.

And expresses the writer believes that this ambition may not reconcile until now for a number of reasons, not least the fact that the rulers of the Gulf are among the most hostile to Iran, and who wish to continue to enjoy the relationship a good business with them at the same time, as confirmed telegrams diplomatic American newspaper (The Guardian) in November 2010.

The writer goes on in the presentation of evidence of arming Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and linked to the Israeli and the American role in the region, and highlights the so-called Arab Spring.

It is noted that the events in the region, such as the Saudi air strikes on rebels from the tribe in northern Yemen Houthis late 2009, had convinced Washington to press ahead with a deal arming Riyadh. The allegations, which says that Washington were not learning raids Air Arabia is open to question, as stated in the telegrams became open now exported from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh in early 2010, not even the Deputy Minister of Defense and the Air Force Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan, acknowledged that the aircraft home Yemeni civilians had been killed.

He adds that the latest moves in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia; a turbulent region near the strategic eastern Saudi Arabia, probably contributed to that. In March 1.000 Saudi military intervention, at least in Bahrain, to assist the governor in the suppression of protesters, the sons of the country, has just finished the customary laws in the first of June last, but the Saudi military presence is still there, as the continued human rights violations and repression of political opposition.

The attention started to be Washington’s response to events in Bahrain was very small, as well as expression of concern, Bahrain, after all, hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and the headquarters of Naval Command of the U.S. Central Command, the headquarters of the Brigade Marine Expeditionary new in the Middle East and Africa.

He called for by the end of his analysis of American citizens, to demand that their representatives in Congress to disclose details of arms deals with Saudi Arabia, pressure public could help in the detection of this secrecy and obfuscation, or at least raise the level of public awareness of the nature of the “defense trade” non-democratic in essence, how to use tax dollars to support companies dealing in arms.

Analyst: Long term US goal; Merge Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt with GCC to counter Iran