[Siobhan]

Bump

[PsyOp]

BTTT!

[Shermy]

the Eastern province is where all the oil is, right? A million or so Indians and Pakis in Saudi, right? How about arming the slaves and giving them a state there?

[Mitchell]

Bump.

[Vigilanteman]

Kudos to Max Singer for publishing this. I've done buiness in the Eastern Province and more than 90% of the workforce is imported. The 10% who are not are either the bureaucracy (ranging from customs agents to religious police) or those on the lowest strata economically such as road workers and date farmers.

An independent eastern province would essentially mean the end of Saudi oil wealth although, technically small amounts (less than 5%) are produced outside of the Eastern Province.

Singer also neglected to point out that 14 of the 15 Saudi hijackers got their visas from the American Counsulate in Jeddah (near Mecca), the 15th from Riyhad, the aboriginal homeland to the House of Saud. Not one got a visa in Dahman, in the Eastern province and might have been exposed had they tried, because a good share of the natives there cannot stand the Wahabis.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

We might also try being more conservative with our oil, this decreasing our reliance on these screwballs.

[Savage Beast]

These poor benighted people are desperately in need of two things: (1) the determined exercise of American power and (2) missionaries.

On second thought...never mind the missionaries.

[Frances_Marion]

We need to circumvent our reliance on oil from these Wahabbi jerks....Turkmenistan, Mexico, Russia, Angola, anywhere but from these rich, fat dictators in S.Arabia.

[denydenydeny]

Saddam Hussein’s regime – which will disintegrate even faster than that of the Taliban

I could be wrong, but I agree.

[Kermit]

Actually, we should break up Saudi Arabia into a dozen parts with several more Gulf Emirates with the oil and split the rest off. Since we're nice guys, we should give the Saudis an ultimatum, immediately stop their Wahhabism propaganda or suffer the consequences. Creating a couple of wealthy Shia Emirates would also create a counterweight to Shia Iran. Iran should be warned to, that they will be broken up next, if they don't immediately stop all support for terror.

The problem is that the Bushies are joined at the hip with the Saudi Royal Family. Does Dubya have the guts to gut the Saudis?

[rmlew]

AS much as I hate Wahabbis, I'm not sure that giving the Arabia oil to Shi'ites is a greate idea. Add this to the proposal to invade Iraq, which could lead to a Shiite government in the south, and Shi'ites would control over 1/2 of the oil pumped today. I have nothing against Shi'ites except for Hizbullah, Amal, and their protector Iran. Anyone else remember this theocratic regional power run by fundamentalist Shi'ites?

It's not like the Iranians are paragons of tolerances. Ask Zoroastrians or Persian Jews.

We need to destroy both Wahabism and Khomeniism before pretending to be the British.