[swarthyguy]

We recognise and we say it but we don't act like we do.

India and Israel are urged to restrain themselves while we kiss Saudi arse and pretend the Pakistanis are our allies.

I'm going by what the US is doing in public.

There's a lot more going under cover, but this assumption that we have allies in the arab countries or pakistan is bunk.

In the past, countries from the phillipines to india to israel had urged the US to consider a global campaign but our response was to either ignore it or treat it as a criminal matter with no investigation of states - as in the clinton era.

Hasn't changed enough. We're still playing nice with the Saudis. And they are, IMO, our prime enemy.

[virgil]

I see what you mean. Our loyalties are compromised by our dependance (oil) on our enemies. Its too bad we can't prospect for our own oil. That would cause a most perturbed reaction from the greenie weenies.

[metesky]

There's a lot more going under cover...

President Bush is walking a tightrope here.

On the one hand, he needs to hold our enemies close until we can open the Iraqi oil spigot which will drive the evil Saudis into poverty and perhaps bring them out into the open.

On the other hand, he can not openly brand Islam for what it is knowing that to do so would unleash the rightful wrath of the American population and lead to a bloodbath the likes of which the Islamanazis haven't seen since Richard the Lion Hearted waded in Saracen blood.