Posted on 08/14/2002 3:23:03 PM PDT by X-USAF
Let's dump Saudi Arabia.
Seriously, let's get a new date for the prom.
There's got to be a prettier whore on the corner.
Now, if I understand things right, Saudi Arabia used to be nothing but a bunch of sand fleas and the occasional guy living in a tent. I think his name was Ali Baba.
Anyway, this Ali Baba guy was out hunting for some food when up through the ground come a bubblin' crude. Oil that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Or something like that.
The problem was, he didn't know what to do with it because in his world "internal combustion" was something that happened after you got into a bad batch of camel milk. Fortunately, smart people from America were around who handed him billions of dollars and said, "Here, hold this," while they started putting in pipelines.
This is how Saudi Arabia got rich.
Which was a good thing, because Saudis really like being rich. And, inasmuch as they all declared themselves princes and sultans and such, the money goes a long way toward hiding the fact that other than oil and ugly women this place has absolutely nothing going for it.
But like anyone who gets money he hasn't earned, the Saudis have taken to biting the hand that feeds them. For a generation and longer they have been America's closest ally in the Muslim Middle East, absolutely the closest friends money could buy. Just unbelievable prosperity.
And for that we've gotten nothing.
Back during Desert Storm they let us station troops there to repel a nation intent on invading and killing them, and they allowed us to build them the most advanced military air base in the world, and we get to protect their shipping lanes, but other than that they do nothing for us. We get to lick their boots, and that's it.
And lately it's gotten worse. There was the unpleasantness with September 11, and the fact that 15 of the 19 terrorist attackers were Saudis, and the interesting thing about Osama bin Laden being a Saudi, and the fact that public opinion polls show the overwhelming majority of Saudi citizens considers Osama bin Laden a hero and the United States of America a devil, and the small matter of thousands of Muslim schools funded by the Saudi government that teach the next generation of Jihad fanatics to hate Americans, Jews and Christians.
And, of course, the fact that when we said we might want to fight Iraq to prevent those monkeys from building a nuclear bomb the Saudi government told us to go screw ourselves.
Or words to that effect.
If we weren't paying their bar tab, we'd consider these guys our enemies.
But instead they insist they are our allies, while quietly slitting our throats.
So I'm thinking it's time to boot them. Take away their Most Favored Muslim status and find ourselves some new friends. For example that Iraq place, who says we can't knock off that Saddam madman and find who's left and put billions of dollars in his hands and say, "Here, hold this," while we put in pipelines.
Heck, we could even do business with Russia.
Anybody but Saudi Arabia.
They've played us for a fool long enough. Their arrogantly self-evident contempt for the United States should extend all the way to our money. If they're going to curse us and work against us, then we don't want to stain them with our filthy money.
Underwear and allies should each be changed periodically. And our relationship with Saudi Arabia is pretty stained.
So let's wave them good bye. They can hate us if they want, but we don't have to make them rich.
There's got to be a prettier whore on the corner.
Right on!
Even if he looks and sounds just like a Ned Flanders.
;-)
You're right, a great read. A perfect example of one of my dad's favorite expressions, "Uncle Sap."
(Reading this article, I feel just that much better when I fill up my Vespa... for only 1.85 worth of gas.)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.