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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (36099)8/6/2002 11:09:55 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
What's the biggest deterrent to attacking Iraq? Losing our buddies in the House of Saud.

Our Friends the Saudis have not been behaving like friends lately, CB. They finance al Qaeda and Hamas, they have quietly refused to cut off the money and have welcomed the returning fighters home. They have thrown us out of our air bases and we are now duplicating the command center in Qattar. They all cheered on September 11th (the reports from US military personnel who worked with Saudis were very striking on this point). They are the chief source of the Wahabbi fundamentalism that is one of the animating ideologies of Islamism. Their own media spew Nazi-level anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Their own reaction to threats to themselves is always to buy them off and point them elsewhere. Like at us.

It is the very antithesis of Jacksonianism to keep pretending someone is your friend when he behaves like an enemy.

Advocating taking over Saudi oil fields and confiscating Saudi money because many Saudis support Islamism and *some* Saudis support terrorism is bone-headed, ham-fisted Ugly Americanism the likes of which we haven't seen in decades.

Well, this is the first time I have seen this line of thought break out of the pages of National Review and into the WaPo. But judging from what I've read, especially Tom Friedman, who is a good observer and no kind of hawk, if there is one country on earth where you can say that most people believe as Osama bin Laden did, they just failed to practice what they preach, it's Saudi Arabia.
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