Saturday, June 11, 2011

A question about Bahrain

A regular and reliable source on Bahrain sent me this:  "So after the crown prince went on a PR tour and was praised by Obama and Cameron, it turns out he won't even lead the national dialogue that is set to begin in July. Instead, the sectarian idiot MP Khalifa Al Dhahrani will be leading the dialogue. This is like having dialogue between Israel and the PA with Netenyahu being the moderator. What a joke. Al Dhahrani has been responsible for the sham investigations against many prominent figures that are seen to be sympathetic to the opposition.  The government couldn't have sent a clearer message that it wasn't serious about dialogue (for those who still had hope. I definitely didn't). My question to you though is, what the hell was the point of the meeting with the crown prince though? From the press releases, it seems that the US assumed that the Crown Prince would be heading the dialogue. So either the US didn't know that he will not be heading the dialogue which means that its puppet is out of control, or the US knew and thus is in complete support of the regime." My answer: the US does not give a damn about what happens in Bahrain and how many are killed and whether dialogue is replaced with beheadings or not.