A recently announced Saudi-led "anti-terror" coalition was met with
great skepticism recently. This is not because of doubts over Saudi
Arabia's sincerity alone, but because of the fact that much of the
terrorism the "coalition" is allegedly to fight is an intentional
creation of Saudi Arabian foreign policy to begin with.
Likely what Saudi Arabia is doing, is attempting to reboot a narrative
that, as of late, is increasingly implicating it and many of the members
of its "coalition" as the very source of global terrorism.
Additionally, Saudi Arabia has become increasingly involved directly
with military operations beyond its borders. Its forces are fighting in
neighboring Yemen, and military forces from Saudi Arabia and its Persian
Gulf neighbors have been fighting covertly and semi-covertly in
operations stretching from Libya to Syria.
Creating a "coalition" to fight "terrorism," would give the Saudis
another rhetorical ploy to hide their increasingly direct role in
supporting militarily the terrorist proxies they have deployed and who
are now being defeated across the MENA region. Just as the US has done
in Syria, using ISIS as a pretext to involve itself directly and
militarily in the Syrian conflict without ever actually fighting ISIS,
Saudi Arabia is seeking to create a plausible cover story to do the
same.
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