OT--but I wish I knew what the implications of all this were for the price of gold.
Thanks for that link and thanks to the other poster who put it up.
I did not know until I looked at the box with the photos and information on the hijackers--in this morning's Sunday NY Times-- that most of them were Saudis.
It may seem far-fetched to say, but it begins to seem to me that these groups, in their fanaticism, have something in common with Timothy McVeigh: I mean a blind hatred and a determination to cause as much destruction as possible in the most public way possible. The Saudis seem to hate the United States for "polluting" sacred soil with its presence in their country, and hate the interdependence of the United States with Saudi oil and American military power. Mc Veigh, of course, was at the polar extreme from this, believing that he was acting in the most fundamental interests of the United States.
It's hard to defend yourself against a suicidal lunatic in advance. I hate the limitations of tight security, but I think we are going to have to have it--including much stricter controls on foreign visitors. I do not think that it would cause terrible hardship or constitute unfair persecution to require that all Saudis, except for diplomatic and duly cleared business emissaries, simply go back to Saudi Arabia. I imagine that may well already be taking place. Sending people home is not the same as putting them in concentration camps.
Because of our officially friendly relationship with Saudi Arabia, because of the Gulf War, and most of all because they have all that oil, I think that Saudis have been given rather easy access to this country.
Well, I am sure that plenty of people are talking all this over right now. I was just very surprised at the obvious Saudi connection. |
