Posted on 10/16/2018 8:25:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
If I recall correctly, the 9/11 pilots and highjackers were all but one, Saudi.
Why is this even being asked?
Hold friends close, but hold enemies closer. They need watching. I hope any weapons, including jets, we sold them have secret off switches that can be activated , if needed.
Parts of the current kerfuffle seem like an echo of the last days of the Shah. Jimmy Carter decided that the Shah did not value human rights and so the US took away our support for him. Much sadness for the world has followed that mistake.
Saudi Arabia is not a good place. And I would support slowly extricating the US from the affairs of the Middle East. But any dramatic rejection of the current Saudi leadership, by President Trump, is not likely to bring anything but more suffering.
16 of 19.
Riyadh, Mecca and Medina should have been smoking craters on 9/12/2001
Saudis have never been our friends.
Should have been severed and nuked 9/13/2001
The Kingdom has the largest proven reserves in exportable oil in the world. Its impact on the global economy cannot be underestimated. We would be fools to sever our relationship over the death of a Saudi passport holder.
Is Pat on the Tehran payroll?
Once we nuke Mecca, let’s revisit this question with whoever might remain in Saudi Arabia.
They’re trying to get Trump.
If not, they should be.
In Obama’s eyes they are next to God, that is why he bowed to them.
That WAS America’s leader, a jihadist that lived in the White House
There, IMHO, will be suffering no matter the decision and actions taken.
It has nothing to do with friendship. Our strategic national interests are at stake. We benefit and have benefited by our relationship with the Saudis. More importantly, they are not our enemies.
Yup! PAT is taking dictation from mullahs in Tehran:
“ the sanctioned killing of a political enemy of the regime or 10,000 dead Yemenis, including women and children, and millions facing malnutrition and starvation in a Saudi war of aggression being fought with the complicity and cooperation of the United States?”
Inquiring minds want to know.
I think the real point is that it shouldn’t be wasted over this.
Distrust but verify is how you deal with these rags.
Exactly.
There are no good guys among muslims. Just ones who are more or less on our side. MBS is more on our side than any other muslim Saudi has ever had.
Yet Pat wants us to ally with Iran. The dude has many loose screws.
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