"Do you suppose that displays of personal self-indulgence on this scale might have anything to do with "Muslim rage?" I don't know what the unemployment rate is in Brunei, but elsewhere in the Middle East it is very high, while the Sultan, and "folks" like Saddam, Uday, Qusay, the few thousand members of the Saudi royal family....live in the lap of luxury."
Why can't the same be said about the concentration of wealth in this country? Perhaps it's not as extreme, but isn't it possible that it soon could be? Would it be logical to expect the lower and middle (if there still is one) classes to respond with the same "rage"?
I suppose that's the goal of liberals, isn't it? Class division. Race division. Religious division. Cultural divide...........then CONQUER! "Level the playing field" so that everyone has the same, and opportunities to move up, to succeed....disappear. The government provides for everyone in the homogenous American, soviet-style family.
Besides, my point was that the gap is so huge between staggering wealth and abject poverty; between "stasis" or a perpetual status quo (like the caste system in India), and those few (like the Sultan) who are simply born into $250 million private jet life styles, that I'm asking, "why blame America for those gigantic, historic discrepancies?"
The left loves to preach about "social justice!" Where or when has there been "social justice" in these age-old potentates which have existed in that part of the world for hundreds of centuries, long before oceans of oil were ever discovered under their deserts, and most certainly long before there was an America.
Char