[Courier]

No offense but that is where you make your mistake.

Saudi help in Soviet invaded Afghanistan was not help to a US friend to fight the Soviets in the Cold War. It was help in fighting the more immediate infidels.

When those infidels were defeated, these same fighters turned their attention to the other infidels, US.

[swarthyguy]

>>For some reason I don't think we'll be welcomed in with open arms.


Agreed with you; no mistake, however. There was a mutual need, and it worked. The US always knew that the jihadis hated the Commies for atheism, but hated the West for its "sinful" and "immoral" ways.

But instead of using that close effort to modernise their peoples in the 90's, the Saudis just changed their efforts to overthrowing the Great Satan.

Conducting asymmetrical warfare against the USA in the guise of AQ, a proxy terror force used at arm's length while denying the very state sponsored nature of AQ to the US.

Sweet, you gotta admit. They learned well from their long cooperation with the CIA and other parties like that.