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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (30458)10/26/2006 5:29:48 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 541857
 
This is for both you and Tim.

First, my original post was half tongue in cheek. Yet I believe it had more truth to it than not.

As to Saudi, it is not a theocracy. The king, the royal family, and by far most of the government and breucracy do not have religious standing (in contrast to say Iran). Saudi Arabia is simply a very conservative ME society (even by ME standards) in which the government has chosen to cooperate with the religious right in order to have a wider support base than otherwise it could garner.

Now the Bush administration has done a very similar thing. It is true that in terms of concrete actions they have not supported the religious right as much the Saudi government does. But it is also true that they have lent as much support to the religious right as they possibly could under the US law. As a result, I find it reasonable to assume that if those laws were non-existent and the religious right could provide the admin with substantial popular base, then they would have gone further...this is not unlike the arrangement between the Saudi royal family and the Wahhabies.

Incidentally, Bush uses God and religious code words quite often. How do you think the RR would feel if instead of "God" he would have called upon "Allah" or frequently quoted Qoran?
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