To: yonif
I hear what you're saying Yonif, but I'm not sure you or I have an answer. Yes Saudi Arabia has been on the wrong side all too often recently. The question is, what do we do about it?
If we took out the leadership of Saudi Arabia and installed another government with free elections, the result would probably be far worse than what we have now.
We're seeing how difficult it is to set Iraq up with a good government.
I'm not saying I'd never sign on to this, but for right now, I think it would be best to finish the job in Afghanistan and Iraq, expand it to Iran and Syria, then clean out Saudi Arabis. Perhaps Africa should be next.
During this process the oil supply needs to be kept flowing because we still haven't pursued an alternative energy supply. Until we do obtain an alternative energy supply, we'll be prostrate over an oil barrel.
There's a lot of work to be done. We're doing part of it.
To: DoughtyOne
We need to isolate Saudi Arabia economically. Sure the US can keep going to other regimes, but the main financier of the terrorists will continue to send people to murder Americans.
9 posted on
04/04/2004 12:58:53 PM PDT by
yonif
("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
To: DoughtyOne
I hear what you're saying Yonif, but I'm not sure you or I have an answer. While the west may not have an answer to the "Royals" in Saud, we can take concrete measures to stop the outward expansion of Wahabbism. Since Wahabbism is a creature of the Saudis and we know exactly where their money is spent we can stop that. It does absolutely nothing to their base of power in Saudi Arabia and they can mistreat their own people as much as their Wahabbist hearts desire.
We can stop the flow of money to all the terrorist organizations that receive it abroad and we can arm those countries in the region who can stem any warlike activities of the terrorist states the Saudis fund.
In addition, we can stop giving them covet and honor here in America which is only to curry favor with them to keep their filthy oil flowing. They have no choice but to sell it to us, and we are too stupid to stop buying.
12 posted on
04/04/2004 1:10:18 PM PDT by
Nachum
To: DoughtyOne
There's a lot of work to be done. We're doing part of it.Right!
This may be the work of the next century!
13 posted on
04/04/2004 1:20:16 PM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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