[CitizenUSA]

Don't tell me you're hoping Saudi Arabia falls apart, too? Whether you agree with the royal family or not, wouldn't you agree they've kept their country reasonably stable all of these years? Although I find their culture distasteful, I think they've been reasonably good allies for several decades.

Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia????

[taxed2death]

"Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia????"

You're kidding, right?

SA is STILL funding over 90% of the Islamist madresses (terror schools) across the globe. If that's not "radical", then what is?

[ccmay]

Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia???

I think this country would be best served by no Saudi Arabia, at least not in the sense we have known it.

I believe in the restoration of Greater Israel, including the ancient Qurayza Jewish homelands in what is now Saudi Arabia. I want the Saudis driven into the Empty Quarter to live in tents and herd their camels like their savage ignorant grandfathers. They don't deserve any better. Let the Jews take the oil fields as reparations for 1400 years of oppression at the hands of the fiendish Mahometan filth.

-ccm

[cynwoody]

Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia????

Perhaps Poppy Bush misplayed his cards in 1991. He should have instructed Ambassador Glaspie to let Saddam know that not only did the US acquiesce in his acquisition of the Nineteenth Province, but that we looked forward to his bringing order to the region ... especially Saudi Arabia. Just stay off the WMD and don't overcharge for the crude or we'll have to nuke you.

By now Saudi Arabia would have landfills full of those pesky Wahabbis. Bin Laden would be dead. Saudi women would be driving cars and getting drunk. 9/11 would not have happened.

[podkane]

Don't tell me you're hoping Saudi Arabia falls apart, too? Whether you agree with the royal family or not, wouldn't you agree they've kept their country reasonably stable all of these years? Although I find their culture distasteful, I think they've been reasonably good allies for several decades.

Hoping has nothing to do with it. They are a brutally repressive regime, and it is OUR Achilles tendon that we are so reliant on their oil... we should have begun decades ago developing new energy technologies...

Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia????

The Saudis have been the biggest supporters of the Madrassas schools which have radicalized a whole generation of angry young men against us. They DIRECTLY support the people who would have us destroyed in order to deflect attention from their playboys-of-the-western-world lifestyles.

[patriciaruth]

Do you really think this country's interests would be better served by a radical Islamist Saudi Arabia????

Wasn't Jimmy Carter right about the Shah of Iran?

Wasn't it an upright thing to tsk-tsk the Shah about human rights violations and turn our back on him when the Iranian revolution occurred?

Aren't we all better off since the Ayatollas took over Iran?