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It is striking, but consider the news: that for all the recent hoopla concerning Wikileaks a mere +1,300 sources have been released from a filing list of over 250,000 cables. Wikileaks is only releasing leaks on a drip by drip basis, pun intended. So there's a lot more to learn. Admittedly much of the yet-to-be-released papers are probably not news worthy, but there's still a lot to read over which I am is highly useful. And Wikileaks is preserving an Armageddon batch, if you will, of highly sensitive information which it's using against the United States as a warning to release if the U.S. government does not cease in its attempt to destroy the whistle-blower site.
A recent disclosure details a Saudi proposal to establish an Arab force, backed by American and NATO sea and air power, which would be used to counter Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party-cum-militia widely detested by the Saudis and their Lebanese Sunni allies and deemed a threat to Israeli and a terrorist organization by the United States. Hezbollah is also considered an Iranian surrogate by all three nations.
The Saudis desperately seek to undermine Hezbollah as part of a dual-effort to shore up their influence over Lebanon and to rebuff Iranian ambitions in the region. There's also a sectarian bent given that official state doctrine of Wahhabi is fiercely anti-Shiite even though 20% of the population is an adherer to the sect in Islam. So for the Saudis this is a Sunni vs. Shiite.
But what about the proposal? This is highly hilarious. Saudi Arabia's army recently battled child soldiers, highly inexperienced and poorly armed, along its border in Yemen. The Saudi army lost over 100 soldiers to a bunch of rag-tag youth with AKs. Consider Hezbollah: a highly trained, highly disciplined, highly experienced and heavily well-armed force of several thousand. Israel in one month failed to obviate the force and lost 120 soldiers in the process. That was Israel's highly-exalted army. Now imagine what would happen to the Saudis if their inexperienced and poorly disciplined force attempted a battle. This is what Saudi special forces look like:
This would be very amusing. The Saudis would be thoroughly destroyed in minutes and the royal family humiliates. Not a bad idea in that case. Why didn't they do for it?
