Reply #70: None of the above... [View All]

[Darranar]

Iraq is quickly turning into a colonial state, Saudi Arabia is ruled by US puppets (though their misrule has attracted a strong Islamist opposition, so they pay off the Islamist militants), and Israel is a US ally.

The real enemy of the US government are the anti-imperialism and anti-totalitarianism people in the Middle East, the people who are rejecting both Islamism and imperialism. That is why Mubarak and others have begun cracking down on all opposition; democracy is an intolerable situation, because it could involve the rejection of US hegemony while at the same time keeping the nation away from Islamism. An example of such a possibility is Jordan. The Islamist parties are rather marginal there, but opposition to the US strike on Iraq was tremendous and virulent. If the monarchy was removed from the picture, the results would be interesting.

If you are speaking of the enemies of those who want the world and region to improve, then those would be the imperialists and the Islamists. Those would comprise all of the current governments (if Paul Bremer's occupation authority can be considered a government) of the three states listed in your post.