But doesn't the government of Saudi Arabia massively fund the madrassa schools where extremist wahhabism takes root?
The government of Saudi Arabia is absolutely complicit in creating Islamic terror. It just likes to remove itself by a degree or two to maintain a veneer of innocence.
And a veneer is all it is.
As I understand it Saudi Arabia is mostly Wahhabi. What is the King to do, totally dis his complete populace? Even as king there are limitations to what you can do.
The government funds schools. It also disburses funds to the extended family, or at the very least provides them with kush well paying jobs.
The Kingdom’s money does finance a variety of problematic things. Does the king approve of them all?
Perhaps he does. I don’t believe so.
We give the Bush family a lot of crap for having a working relationship with the king and the government of Saudi Arabia. I think the families are friends. I don’t see the king being a big hater of America.
On 09/11 there were members of the Royals in the U. S. If the king were puppeteering the events of 09/11, don’t you think he would have had them all out of country?
If he was directing the actions, why would he offer New York a lot of money that Giuliani refused?
I’m just not sold on the level of evil nature folks like to attribute to the Saudi leadership.
Saudi Arabia has a long history of not being an enemy of the United States. In the old Oil Cartel days the Saudi government used to intercede on behalf of the United States so that the Arab states wouldn’t gouge the West for oil.
Saudi Arabia has big investments in the West. If the West crumbles, a significant port of the Saudi wealth dies with it. Attacking New York doesn’t strategically enhance Saudi Arabia’s standing in any way.
Saudi Arabia has more to fear from it’s regional threat Iran that it does the U. S. by a very large margin. Why would it want to neutralize the U. S.? It just doesn’t make sense for it to.