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Originally Posted by Seaver
I was wondering how long it'd take till someone spews the "it's America's fault!" crap.
Look at the history of what went on. The Saud's were one of the leading families in the rebellion against the Turks during WWI. They were repaid for their vast support with a kingdom which was formed (gasp) by England and France. I dont know how you say it's Americas fault.
Oh wait, it's because we support them now. Because they are against terror and have aided us greatly since 9/11.
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I think.... just possibly Stevo was being sarcastic when he said what he said, I maybe wrong, in which case I will be surprised.
The Saudi family is supporting us for 2 reasons, protection of their power and greed. But they have also allowed the anti US/ Isreal hatred to grow and blossom and did nothing for many, many, many years to prevent groups like Al Quida from growing. In fact I would argue they probably aided and fueled hatred against us to keep their people from seeing the truth of how the family has raped their economy and kept them in the dark ages.
The Saudis are not our allies and to believe they are not in it for their own self preservation and would turn on us in a heartbeat if they started to lose control of their peoples, is blind and dangerous and I hope our military intelligences are smarter than that.
In regards to the destruction of the holy areas...... I have a feeling if the people rebelled the Sauds would immediately blame us and Isreal for their greed and say we were behind the destruction/constructions.