There's another story behind how I became a moderator on a middle east blog site but to keep things simple I will just jump to the part where the site owner ribbed me all the time about posting msm stuff. I didn't have the slightest idea of anything concerning the ME. So I jumped in whole heart-ed-ly with links
he supplied to news sources on the ME. What I think most people don't realize is that most people in the US were just like me, they know absolutely nothing about the ME. After months of trying to figure it all
out I came away severely depressed. At one point I even quit moderating but at his insistence came back only to months later leave again and I haven't been back since. Essentially most people assume this is just a Shiite and Sunni conflict when in reality they are just the majority conflict, there are hundreds of minority factions fighting each other also. It's extremely in depth and leaves your head spinning just trying to sort them all out and which ones are fighting which. A lot of these minority factions who ultimately get drawn into the majority faction fights....based on which side they deem will better rule over them because ultimately they are a minority and will never actually rule themselves
except in their little spot in the world among themselves but the majority ruler will always be the prominent ruler of the country overall. It's when the two majority parties in a country who start to disagree that things go bad. This is what happened in Yemen and they sprung into a civil war against
each other. So now you have the two major groups up against themselves and their tiny little tribal factions in the country picking sides according to whom they wish to come out the leader. You top that
off with two separate factions who tried forming their own governments in other countries and got run out, namely Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State who fled to Yemen. So now you have two major parties going at it, their little tribal bunches and two outside forces trying to gain territory in their countries. Usually in a civil war you have what was considered the legitimate government fighting a rebel group whom form what they considered their own government. When the rebel government side started winning things got concerning, especially when they took control of a major port of export for several countries and then threatened they would not stop there but would continue on into Saudi Arabia. The United States was already involved enough as it was chasing into Yemen to try and finish off Al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters who fled there. You take that and couple it with the fact that the American people are tired of being drawn into conflict over there going into another country wasn't viewed as a favorable option. So when Obama was president he got them to agree that it should be the leaders of the ME who form together and make decisions concerning what to do in these types of situations instead of depending on the US to go in and fight their battles. That is exactly what happened in Yemen. If I remember right it was seven countries decided to act against the rebels, it wasn't just a SA thing. As a matter of fact it was when these countries got involved that at times they have been able to broker cease fires to bring in much needed food, medicine and supplies to civilians who had been suffering for years under the civil war. It can also be attributed to these countries intervention a cease fire with a truce agreement that would have ultimately lead to the designation of regional states that could be governed on their own by the various factions but the rebel group ended up ultimately turning them down. As these countries help the government regain control and liberate more area's from the rebels more and more food and supplies are brought in that start to help feed and provide medicine to those who have been without it for years now. It's by the rebels own choosing to continue on with the war then to settle into a negotiable resolution, you find this quite a lot across the middle east, it's always some group who does't want the other group to have any type of sovereignty or self govern-ship. Or it's as simple as some tiny tribe who always wants to be a thorn in another tribe's side. It never ends over there. These groups usually all have acronyms to them, it's the KPP VS MZT's or ABC's vs XYZ's, it's totally crazy, there is literally dozens of them. Why though you wonder most people don't hear all that? Because we don't go to bat for these tiny little groups who undermine the systems we are always involved somehow with the bigger battles....at least up until this one, where worn out Americans said look get the ME to form a coalition and let them decide the fate of the ME and that's where this is ultimately at. For the most part unless it's chasing Al Qaeda, ISIS or protecting Kurds Americans basically want their hands washed of it. So it's up to the countries who are stable in the ME to decide what to do when one becomes unstable or their actions could lead to further unsuitability of the ME or in the ME as a whole and what actions need to be taken to prevent it. Two others factors one has to take concerning the sale of weapons, it wouldn't matter if the US didn't sell anybody weapons in the ME because some other country like Russia would just turn around and do it anyway...and if Russia didn't they'd all just take to hand to hand combat because that's just how crazy they all are over there but everyone loves to pick their villains and that usually happens based on the propaganda spread by the MSM and not how things truly roll over there. Like I said once you sit and figure it all out you'll come away depressed knowing there is no answers, there really isn't.