Posted on 12/11/2016 6:57:35 AM PST by Nextrush
What fun it is on the rare occasions when a Cabinet Minister tells the truth. It upsets all the right people.
The Government squawks and flaps and tries to drown out the revelation with fresh lies. The semi-official political press starts babbling about how the culprit has mad a 'gaffe', a word used by nobody else, meaning 'embarrassing but honest statement'.
And the rest of us can enjoy it. So it is with Foreign Secretary Johnson's attack on Saudi Arabia's nasty, violent meddling in other countries, mainly responsible for turning Syria into a wasteland of ruins, full of corpses and weeping mourners.
He was careful-and correct-to level the same charge against the Iranian ayatollahs. But attacks on Iran are politically and diplomatically acceptable, and anyone can make them. Justified criticism of the Riyadh despotism is taboo because this country had crawled so deep into the pocket of Saudi Arabia that it cannot find its way out.
Actually, I understand why we need to grovel quite a bit to the Saudis. We are poor and they are rich. They have lots of oil and ours has almost run out. They buy our aircraft and weapons, which most people prefer not to.
So a certain amount of politeness and flattery are necessary. They can have as many Royal visits as they like, and I can put up with us flying flags at half-mast when Saudi royalty dies. Why not? We recently entertained the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping........
...in recent years, the Saudis have asked too much...
It required Britain to back the Al Nusra front, a bloodthirsty gang of hate-filled fanatics. These are exactly the sort of people we warn against in our 'anti-extremism' programmes at home, and it is very hard to tell what separates them from the Islamic State....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The media and government elites are fomenting anger and hatred towards Russia to bring us in on the side of the Saudis in Syria.
Hitchens notes how the UK needs Saudi money and oil and hence its willing to go along with the wars in Yemen and Syria fomented by the Saudis.
I think the same notion has driven political and business leaders in this country as well.
There's more good reading beyond what I excerpted.
Thanks for posting this.
For what - they have no ideology other than to retain power and be able to live their disgustingly perverted, decadently extravagant lives powered by their blood money.
Being a member of the House of Saudi is anathema - or at least it should.
Al Queda literally means "the foundation" as in the base of a building.
The Saudis are the ones who sold them the cement.
Working with the Saudis is working with the devil.
The “royal” family is being held at scimitar edge by the islamic cleric fanatics. So, just make sure the guys pulling their strings go as well.
I believe Bin Ladin Construction was selling all of the cement.
The House of Saud (Sunnis) has a target on its back put there by Iran (Shias). Given the longstanding relationship between Washington and Saudi petro dollars (despite the Royal family’s links to Wahabi terrorism) it’s unlikely that this will end well for the US or the Saudis.
Sadly, next in line to take over is al queda.
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