[floridaobserver]

What does this mean? "Saudi Arabians are just weird".


Since you lived in the Middle East, I would be interested in knowing what your experience was with the Saudis.

[Allegra]

I still live in the Middle East. I just know from other Middle Easterners about the Saudis. I haven't been to KSA and have no desire to go there. I've come across large groups of them in other Middle Eastern countries and have seen their arrogance and rudeness and I've seen the reaction of the locals to their presence.

Saudis are largely despised in a lot of the more moderate Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon, UAE, Jordan and Iraq. I got the impression the Kuwaitis aren't real crazy about them either when I was in Kuwait briefly a couple of times as well.

Saudi is a strict, fundamentalist country with werid rules such as not allowing women to drive or vote. Alcohol is forbidden. The only other country in the region that is as backward socially as KSA is Iran.

The U.S. government and the Saudi kingdom pretend that they are friends, but they are not. I don't know why they bother to put up the pretense. Anyone with any sense knows the Saudis would stab us in the back at the first opportunity.