Is that you, George Bush?
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Folks, after watching the dynamics across the Middle-East for the last fifty years, I can tell you that the Saudis are not the enemies you think them to be.
I’ll tell you what, in the end neither was Khadaffy. Assad wasn’t as bad as he could have been.
Look at guys like Hussein, Achmadinnerjacket, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah. Jordan and the Saudis have had a working relationship with the U. S. for fifty years.
They were never involved in hijackings. They weren’t invading other countries. They weren’t damanding Israel be pushed in to sea.
It’s all realative over there. Some nations are worse than othere. For many years Assad was a jackass. In recent years he moderated to a certain extent. He wasn’t persecuting Christians in his nation. He was helping Hezbollah to arm against Israel in Southern Lebanon, and that was a big problem, but in other ways, he wasn’t the pariah I always thought him to be.
Islam does have it’s teachings that we despise. Saudi Arabia has those religious teachings in it’s nation too. Hey they all do over there. That doesn’t mean that they are all out to destroy the U. S. the first chance they get.
McCain was sure getting Khadaffy out of Libya was going to be a great thing. Now the nation is destabilized. We armed the rebels, and now it’s a real mess.
Some folks thought Mubarak was a jackass. Well, how much better are things now? There is some stability momentarily, but it could be gone in days. Assad may now be replaced by a truly game changing group. Things can always be worse.
Saudi Arabia could be a hell of a lot worse. Those of you who trash it today, you just wait until the next leadership takes over. You’re not going to be happy. Get used to that idea.
You can rag on Saudi Arabia just like Carter and McCain did in Iran and Libya. And then you will see why demanding a change in the Saudi Leadership was a mistake as well.
That day comes.
We are not going to nuke Mecca. The day we use nukes again, we will never be able to complain if nukes are used against us. We did it in WWII, but those were different times.
If someone used nukes against us today, they would be considered a pariah. If we use nukes again prior to that, we will be seen as living and dying by that sword.
That’s not a devaluation I want to see.