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1. The Saudi Government is 'friendly', we should try to keep it that way.... It's about oil...
2. Maybe, by playing it quiet, they are getting farther along, then going around yelling....
3. Do we have all the facts??? Say you were an informant and gave away some info, that really only you could give.... Would you want the people you gave the info to to blurt it out, ending your life???
4. It could be 'home-grown' terrorism, there also could be a group working quietly on this.... Laying low and quiet works for any number of predetors in the wild.... Could this work in a man against man crisis also......
5. OIL, it is all about oil.... Since the 'greenpeacers' through such a fit about everything, and threaten 'home-grown' terrorism on such projects we are tied up there..... I worked as a security guard at a dump site in Standish, MI, where people calling themselves 'greenpeace' wrecked fences, bulldozers, and front-end loaders in the name of protecting the land.... Yes, they are a mild group of people....
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The only one of those questions that hasn't been answered already is #4.
1. Everybody knows that the Saudi fundies support terrorism, and the Saudi leadership is compelled to listen to them because they threaten to overthrow the government otherwise. Basically, we're nice to the Saudis because the alternative would be worse. Plus, the greenies won't let us drill enough to become self-sufficient, and nobody's willing to fund large-scale solar development, so we're kind of caught in a bind.
2. We know who did it. We know why. We know how. What more do you want?
3. All those who can remember the last time ANY war was carried out primarily for 'legal' reasons, raise your hand... *crickets chirp* what're you gonna do, SUE 'em to death?
5. Considerably less than the people who actually did it. Who are known, yet somehow escaping all that much blame, while you look for a politically convenient scapegoat. Mea culpa, we didn't say "don't do that." Inaction, however, is not generally considered a crime.
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Unless, of course, one happens to be God, yes?
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It just warms my heart to read the simplistic answers proffered by our members of the right.
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I liked the way Jon Stewart put it. The US and Saudi Arabia have a special relationship: that of addict and dealer.
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Simplistic or no, Rob's quite right. What more do you want?
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Ok class, what I want you to do is explain how the Bush Doctrine which states if you or any other state that supports terrah, harbors terrahists, sells terrah at local Wal-Marts or has anything to do with terrah, then you are evil and against us freedom loving types and we're a' coming after ya...explain why this isn't being enforced against countries like, oh, Saudi Arabia?
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Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
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Last I knew I was a fence sitter..... I do believe that I am on record here, someplace, that I am not a fan of young Bush...
But somethings just need to be said....
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quote:Ok class, what I want you to do is explain how the Bush Doctrine which states if you or any other state that supports terrah, harbors terrahists, sells terrah at local Wal-Marts or has anything to do with terrah, then you are evil and against us freedom loving types and we're a' coming after ya...explain why this isn't being enforced against countries like, oh, Saudi Arabia?
*Raises hand* OOH! I can do that, teacher! I can even use small words, so you're sure to comprehend! *
It's like in real school, you know? If there's a group of unpleasant kids messing with you, and you take one of the nastier ones and beat the snot out of him, the other ones reconsider messing with you? And if they don't, you beat the snot out of the next nastiest one? And so on?
Well, Afghanistan and Iraq are the nasty kids, and Saudi Arabia is the 'toadie' kid who's hanging out with them, not really fighting beside them, but not yet convinced that he'd be better off behaving. But if you beat the snot out of the ringleaders, generally you don't have to beat the snot out of the toadie.
If you know this going in, you can limit the number of fights that you get in.
Because fighting a 23-front war, as you would presumably have us do, is stupid.
*Well, I had to do that with REAL teachers, so why not?
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"Only an idiot would fight a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of an idiot would fight a war on twelve fronts." -Londo Mollari
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