The people of Saudi Arabia live under a more fearful dictatorship than Venezuala. In Venezuala you’re free to go to church. Not so in Saudi.
But Freepers are fixated on overthrowing Venezuala, with no comparable concerns about Saudis. I smell double standard
The difference is the Saudis are continuing to pay off the populace.
In Venezuela the greedy upper echelon is not paying off the populace and is occurring the wrath of their socialist populace who want money and food and medical attention, like they had in their socialist past. -Tom.
“The people of Saudi Arabia live under a more fearful dictatorship than Venezuala. In Venezuala you’re free to go to church. Not so in Saudi. But Freepers are fixated on overthrowing Venezuala, with no comparable concerns about Saudis. I smell double standard”
Double standard? I don’t think so. Most people in Saudia Arabia are muslims and have no problem getting to their mosque. They also aren’t starving in Saudia Arabia as is the case in VZ. In addition VZ is much closer to home. The situations are quite different.
Having said that ... I don’t support meddling in VZ because I think it’s important for the world to see communism overthrown if that’s even possible. Installing some US puppet is not that instructive.
Also — as others have stated — we might be just replacing one socialist with another.