[armadale]

All I'm saying is that there's nothing heroic about the Weekly Standard's piece. If they really wanted to be heroic and patriotic and helpful, they could investigate the more obvious and more insidious links between Our Friend Saudi Arabia and all the terrorism since 9/11 (and before!)

[pgkdan]

If they really wanted to be heroic and patriotic and helpful, they could investigate the more obvious and more insidious links between Our Friend Saudi Arabia and all the terrorism since 9/11 (and before!)

It's already been investigated to death and SA's involvement in terrorism before and after 9-11 is well known and undeniable. We know it...we just refuse to do anything about it...so far. I hope that a day of reckoning is coming soon. It won't happen before the election, unless of course there's another large scale attack on our soil. In that case all bets are off.

[optimistically_conservative]

... they could investigate the more obvious and more insidious links between Our Friend Saudi Arabia and all the terrorism since 9/11 (and before!)

There are links between SA and AQ. They are mostly private. SA should not become the focus, they are down on the list and are already working to clean up their terrorist ties - out of self-preservation of the Saud family not any particularly friendly feelings for their "ally" the US. But there are much more significant ties and support coming from intelligence services in the Middle East and Africa that allows terrorist groups to be effective. SA religious leaders may incite, and private wealth may finance, but the intelligence, logistical and operational support is not based there.

[Eva]

All I'm saying is that there's nothing heroic about the Weekly Standard's piece. If they really wanted to be heroic and patriotic and helpful, they could investigate the more obvious and more insidious links between Our Friend Saudi Arabia and all the terrorism since 9/11 (and before!)

No, you're spinning the truth to point up the apparent flaw in the Bush tactic, rather than admit that Bush inherited a foreign policy mess from the Clinton administration and that the state dept. and CIA hold-overs are more than a little reluctant to admit that they not only made mistakes, they were totally politicized by the Clinton administration.

[q_an_a]

my fear, in regards to terror coming to a building near you or me, is that the three competing sets of mullahs, will keep trying to out do each other as they work on defeating the great satan. give them a bomb and there will be real problems in ameirca and the west. pakistan and india are not our partners.