The REAL enemy??
Posted on 08/05/2002 8:21:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A briefing given last month to a top Pentagon advisory board described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States, and recommended that U.S. officials give it an ultimatum to stop backing terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, we can always dream. :-)
The big question was, "What's next after Iraq and Iran?"
This article answers the question.
i agree. my business dealings with the saudis suggests that these are a very low-self-esteem people. they cannot agree on much of anything and have difficulty with this 'trust' thing. i doubt that they could muster any serious army to defend themselves.
on the other hand, i would rather utilize our troops to oust sodom. once the saudis get a dose of 'encouragement' and good old american 'law', i think that they will be easier to deal with...
In a way we are in a win-win situation. If (when) we invade Iraq, the Islamists are under severe pressure to retaliate on a significant scale. If they do so, we will unleash hell on them, and we will have all the justification we need to seize oil fields as the prizes of war. If they can't effectively respond, we dismantle them piece by piece.
In a way Bush can't lose either, because his enemies hold such preposterous positions that they are withered by the plainspoken truth. Bush is a simple man, but all he has to do is defend the record and moral standing of western civlization against those of two-bit Islamic dictatorships. The democratic opposition is warped and anti-American in impulse and action ,if not rhetoric. They will continually be stumped as Bush states obvious but rarely spoken facts in defense of the American people and way of life while the socialists cavil and quake.
Yes, this is a very good situation we're in. If we get the opportunity, how long do you think we will keep the oil fields for? I propose holding on the oil fields until our national debt is paid off!
One thing for sure, on this day next year, things will be dramatically different in the middle east!
Do you think President Bush have guts to go after Saudi Arabia? I mean didn't he just recieve the Prince at his ranch a while ago?
LOL! Even if you think somebody in the administration reads Free Republic (I dunno) Bush is just putting on an act because he has a master plan that he's following.
The Saudis gave us Khobar Towers, Osama and his Fifteen Thieves, the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Murderous Terror Bombers, the Saudi United Fund for Anti-Israel Madrassahs, and the Prince Abdullah "Keepa You Women Handsa Offa My Plane!" and so much more!
Will the band of tittering chipmunks in Foggy Bottom buy a clue where the Opeckers are concerned?
It is devoutly to be wished that this month-long "vacation" is Bush putting the finishing touches on the kiss-off to Saddam and the rest of the pygmies in the region.
Let Daschle and Hillary and the rest of the jellyfish be so disoriented and deflated by his brilliance and elan that they are soundly defeated in November and cannot find their shoes by '04.
So let it be written; so let it be done.
Saudi Arabia delenda est--Neoconus II, Emperor of All Red States
Well. I would hope we have built an airtight case for whatever we do in the ME. The fact that MOST of the 9/11 terrorists were Saudis tells me we might need to re-think our relationship with that country at the very least.
No, we can't since our "great leader" has too many "ties" to the House of Saud. While it would be in the best interest of the U.S.A. to treat them as such, our congress and executive branch is owned lock, stock and barrel by the House of Saud.
My conclusion is that the American conquest and occupation of the oil-bearing lands of the Middle East -- the hostile takeover of OPEC -- is on schedule. Maps will be redrawn as nations are merged or split apart by American command. The former Iraq will eventually end up as the Palestinian homeland.
Once this is done, there is only one way to prevent decades of terrorism aimed at us -- drag the Arab world kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. It means jump-starting their economies the way we did with West Germany in the early Fifties. Once that happens and a technocratic middle class is created, a path is set for the absorption of Western culture, and the Arabs will be assimilated.
Rand put together a 35 year plan much like this for the shah in 1954. The shah’s goal was to follow the path of West Germany. By 1989, had he lived, his goal was to abdicate and turn Iran over to his son as a constitutional monarchy on the British model. By then, he and Rand felt, there would be a technocratic middle class that could support self-rule. Of course, he miscalculated and gave us Khomenei.
Taking the oil fields is inevitable because we can’t allow the oil weapon to be wielded by an enemy. Once here was a Soviet Union to prevent us from making such a power play. Now there is no one.
During the first and second oil shocks in the Seventies, the Arab leaders talked about using that windfall to enhance the wealth and welfare of their peoples. Instead, they bought arms to defend themselves from each other and wasted the rest of it on liquor and whores.
The eventual goal is to take the oil fields and handle the distribution of the oil money the way it should have been done in the first place. We’ll try to win hearts and minds by winning wallets first. The goal is to have the occupied Arabs view us the way the Germans and Japanese did by the Fifties.
I would assume that once we merge Saudi Arabia into our new secular Arab “democracy” – under American and Israeli supervision – we will be helping extremist mullahs and religious radicals meet the 72 virgins, in a pattern reminiscent of de-Nazification.
Yes, the conquest of Saudi Arabia is inevitable. If we don't, the festering sore of Wahhabism will continue to threaten us.
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