"What possesses a former vice president of the U.S. to travel to the birthplace of Islamist terrorism and denounce his country? Only a special breed of demons, apparently, can explain Al Gore," Investor's Business Daily says in an editorial.
"The chief demon, of course, surely must be Gore's continuing quest for the presidency. Embittered he may well be by his loss of the highest office six years ago. But showing such supreme disloyalty to his country, as he did in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, cannot be condoned as an honorable means of pursuing the prize once more," the newspaper said.
"Speaking at the Jiddah Economic Forum, an event staged by oil-rich Saudi royalty, Gore indicted the American government for its 'terrible abuses' of Arabs since the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. Such treatment, he charged, played into the hands of al Qaeda.
"And just what was the nature of these abuses? Arabs had been 'indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.'
"Understand: 15 of the 19 al Qaeda hijackers on that fateful day, a day that saw 3,000 Americans go to their fiery deaths, a day that created thousands more orphans, were Saudi citizens. Those hijackers lived undetected in this country precisely because immigration authorities had been permissive. So Gore believes the tightening of the rules, post-9/11, was one of a series of 'terrible abuses'?" |
