If you look at the worst of our society, you will find plenty of folks others could say were “representative” of the U.S., but weren’t.
Do those 19 hijackers represent the King, the government or all Saudi Arabians?
I’m nowhere near being convinced of that.
If the Saudi leadership had known about the plot, they would have called family members home from the U.S. Before the attack, not sneak them out after it.
It would be interesting to know how much money Saudi Arabia lost on 09/11/01, when the markets crashed. The Saidis invest in the West. They have a stake in Western civilization.
I do not think they are out to destroy the West.
“I do not think they are out to destroy the West.”
Sure they are. They’re as bad as communists. Or Mormons. They can’t help themselves.
https://international.la-croix.com/news/how-saudi-arabia-exports-wahhabism/5095
For over 50 years now, the Gulf kingdom has been striving to spread Wahhabism. This sectarian doctrine fuels Sunni extremism by supporting the construction of hundreds of mosques, schools or Islamist cultural centers throughout the world – from Brussels to Yvelines, from Kosovo to China, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan or Africa.“Saudi Arabia is a land of preaching and, of course, it will never give up its creed, which is to finance and support Islamic action wherever the Islamic community is present,” says political scientist Fatiha Dazi-Heni, a specialist on the Arabian peninsula.
I do not think they are out to destroy the West.
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So it’s kinda like saying that the terror cells are a result of Saudi building of madrassas gone horribly right?