Bahraini monarch thanks US backed Saudi murderers. Syria moves the troops in.

Bahrain protests were violently crushed by police and Saudi forces

The US's man in Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the head of the family that has ruled the Island for 200 years has announced that the "foreign plot" to overthrow his regime has been defeated.
The absolute monarch told the troops of the invading Saudi monarchy Sunday that "An external plot has been fomented for 20 to 30 years until the ground was ripe for subversive designs ... I here announce the failure of the fomented plot." He thanked them for coming in and slaughtering the protesters.

The king spoke the truth when he explained that the reason for the suppression and murder of protesters seeking democratic rights and a republic as 30,0000 US troops stood by, was that if they were to succeed in one Gulf Arab country "it could spill in to neighboring states."
 
 You can't get a clearer explanation than that.  This was undoubtedly the reason that the US had the Saudi's go in and do their dirty work for them. After all, the US is the banner carrier for democracy and human rights throughout the world. It's diplomats, the Hilary Clinton's and its president, Obama, travel the world teaching these poor hapless people the merits of democracy.  "Why don't you want to be free like Americans?" they whine. The democratic ideals of US capitalism are so strong, it allowed its troops to remain idle and not interfere in Bahrain allowing the Bahraini people to decide for themselves. Iraq was different as this dictator threatened the existence of the planet with a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons of mass destruction so US capitalism had to invade and kill a million or so to save the world from destruction.

The Shia in Bahrain, much like the Catholic history in Northern Ireland, are a majority ruled by a minority Sunni regime and are faced with discrimination; they have played a dominant role in the uprising.  Iran, which which has the largest Shia population in the  region and is not an Arab nation is naturally concerned and the region's Sunni rulers, backed by the US has used fear of  Iran's increased influence as a reason for suppressing the movement.  This is a disastrous policy as the opposition is primary secular, demanding democratic reform and an end to discrimination, including religious discrimination and has shown no desire for a theocratic regime along the lines of Iran.  But with nowhere to turn and faced with persecution, discrimination and exclusion from the political decision making of the country Iran's Mullah's may end up being the only alternative. It is US imperialism's role in the region that led to the rise of the Mullah's and it is its present policy that strengthens them.

Bahrain is home to the US navy's 5th fleet which protects the looting of the region's primary resource by the the western based oil industry.

But as disastrous as this foreign policy is, the rise of Islamic terrorist groups and al Qaeda have their roots in US foreign policy, US capitalism is driven by forces beyond its control to continue it.  It preaches democracy and such ideals as universal suffrage  but that is simply not possible; people allowed to vote may well vote them out of the country and vote to control their own national resources.

In fact, this is exactly what happened in occupied Palestine.  The election that produced a victory for Hamas in Gaza were, by most accounts, very fair and free of corruption, especially when compared to elections in the US for example. The problem was that the Palestinian people didn't vote for the US supported candidates.  In a choice between Hamas, and the corrupt rotten US alternative, the Palestinian Authority, they chose Hamas.

That's the damn problem with giving people choices.

As I write I see that the situation in Syria is heating up as the dictatorship there is deploying troops outside the city of Daraa where protests have been taking place, again, for political reform, and protesters have been murdered by the regime.  Syria, of course, is not a pro-US regime so will be condemned as Iran is.

One thing the representatives of US capitalism, Syrian Baathism and Saudi absolute monarchism have in common is that they all blame "outside agitators" when the masses, whose lives they oppress and whose wealth they steal fight back.  The same in Labor struggles.  If we read Labor history in any country, particularly here in the US, workers' struggles are always blamed on "outsiders", communists, anarchists, you name it. We stupid hapless workers couldn't possibly organize a resistance movement of our own.

There's great lessons to be learned in the period of heightened struggle.  We must not let them escape us or have our attention diverted by American Idol.