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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: HG who wrote (5565)10/16/2001 1:25:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
HG... I don't consider SA an "ally".. I consider them a "liability".

The Saudis have the most to gain by this US action long-term as it will prove a major set-back to the financing and logistical support for extremist elements in their society.

This war, just like during "Persian Excursion I", is a case of fixing what they have permitted to get out of hand. The Saudis have to have their arms twisted all the time to get them to cooperate on something that's in their own interest. During the Khobar towers investigation, the Saudis were less than helpful with providing information to the FBI, nor would they permit our folks to interview/interrogate the suspects they claimed were responsible.

Personally, I don't having US troops guarding their butts either, but they have been unwilling to permit the kind of actions required to create long-term stability in the region (like replacing Saddam with someone less aggressive).

If they want to be our friends, they should quit setting us up to take the fall for them all the time. If they want to be our friends, they should pressure Arafat to end the violence, or withdraw all financial support. Is they want to be our friends, they should spend more money on the prosperity of their own people, than on their mansions in the desert.

That's how they can be our friend... Not by USING us to bail them out of problems they perpetuate, or help to create.

Hawk
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