With Friends Like These

Townhall.com ^ | October 12, 2018 | Pat Puchanan

[ManHunter]

Not just in America...

[wastoute]

Or are we being asked to #BelieveHer?

[SunkenCiv]

But before we separate ourselves from the Riyadh regime, we should ask what is the alternative if the House of Saud should be destabilized or fall? When Egypt's King Farouk was overthrown in 1952, we got Nasser. When young King Faisal was overthrown in Baghdad in 1958, we eventually got Saddam Hussein. When King Idris in Libya was ousted in 1969, we got Qaddafi. When Haile Selassie was overthrown and murdered in Ethiopia in 1974, we got Col. Mengistu and mass murder. When the Shah was overthrown in Iran in 1979, we got the Ayatollah. As World War I, when four empires fell, testifies, wars are hell on monarchies. And if a new and larger Middle East war, with Iran, should break out in the Gulf, some of the Arab kings, emirs and sultans will likely fall. And when they do, history shows, it is not usually democrats who rise to replace them.

Wow, I think someone has kidnapped the real Pitchfork Pat. Nice swing around to the correct conclusion, I'm impressed (first time in decades) by one of his squirrelly op-eds. Thanks Kaslin.

[Bookshelf]

The Khashoggi are a Turkish family and the death of one or of all would not raise a tear in Saudi Arabia. Jamal Khashoggi was given one of the first interviews with Osama Bin Laden after the foundation of Al Qaeda, and he is known to have played footsie with Islamists for years. Seems like the Saudis are taking a page from the Russian handbook on how to handle dissidents.

[Chode]

bone saw, please...

[piasa]

Doesn’t Pat Buchanan know Qatar has been supporting terrorism for quite a while? That’s where Qaradawi/Karadawi is based...