Sources of Tension! (Part Two, film two)

Movie Notes (Yet again): Part Two


What sources of tension, new or old, are revealed by this film? 
   
    Oil, always a factor, is basically the prize of this “big betting game” with contractors and investors. We need the oil for the functioning of our economy and therefor the idea of stopping buying it was ridiculed. Citizenship is another issue, as is democracy and the fact that the US has yet to intervene when they should. The new wave of revolt, “the Arab Spring”  as it is called, is a factor, it is protesting in Bahrain.
    Protesters have had open fire placed upon them, it’s hostile and against law. They want a strong military backdrop in Bahrain, they want to know why  the US hasn’t done more to help them. If the Us likes the dictator then we tend to not want to get involved with a revolt but if we don’t like them then we get right into it and try to help and give democracy. This angers some people who WANT democracy and are not getting the help they need. And apparently we like the dictator of Bahrain.  Though the US  says that we can’t be expected to jump in and save everyone, we aren’t superman.
    Many are afraid to talk to Aljazeera because people in the past have been beaten, killed, or gone missing. It seems dangerous to get word out and safe to keep silent so that’s what people do.
    Another contributing factor is the fifth fleet, which is the US’s most important naval base. The family that controls Bahrain is right next to SAudi Arabia the US’s biggest  Middle Eastern Ally and no one wants to see Iran prophet from these changes.
    Some people think things should stay as they are, poor as poor, rich as rich, those people that think as such are the rich of course. Mosques are being destroyed and ruined by the Sunni based government v.s. Shia Shiite. People are being taken by police, people with families and the families can’t do anything without disappearing too.
    Protests in Saudi Arabia, the US will not help because we like their oil and the government wouldn’t give us any if we went against them. Saudi Arabia want’s a democracy, the government disagrees, America isn’t helping because America needs oil.
    So, you see, there are sources of tension, but they are complex and of many. Though I could only list some, it’s a bit of an insight to the tension.

Sources of Tension!

What sources of tension, new and old, in the Middle East are revealed by the film?

    Fault lines are partnership between BBC and Aljazeera. Many signs of war along the road, dead people and wreckage. There are many signs of tension, one of them being that the UN and US are very intervening, and example of which is the Quadafi situation. The US leaders say that we stopped a massacre but other say we were just sticking our nose into other people’s business and making things worse.  The plan was to build up rebel forces and many people have volunteered but most of them are just civilians and as I said, simply volunteers, though they want to help, how much will they really?
    The price of oil, which the price has been going up on rapidly, is a major factor of the tension. Many places import oil from the middle east, including the US, which is one of the many reasons why the US was so eager to help Libya. Rumors, not solid facts, that oil is being secretly pumped have popped up and is being spread. Those are up even though oil officials were saying that nothing was being produced. The economy minister says that they HAVE indeed been pumping oil. 
    So yeah, there are many different sources of tension, these are just a few of them.