According to our military, most foreign fighters in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, not Iran or Syria, as Fox News, President Bush, etc. are fond of insisting.
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According to our military, most foreign fighters in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, not Iran or Syria, as Fox News, President Bush, etc. are fond of insisting.
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Do you mean not Iran or Syria?
Isn’t a large part of the population of Saudi Arabia Sunni? If so it would make sense that it was Saudi’s. Saudi citizens made up a large part of the Al Qaida’s in Afghanistan as well (at least according to some news articles I remember reading).
It gives the more oppressive regimes a pressure valve release” type of opportunity with their internal trouble makers. That way they keep the focus away from their own governments.
D’oh. Yes, that other “S” country. :)
This is pretty bad. As an erstwhile and admittedly sometime current Bush apologist I don’t know quite how to justify this. I take refuge in the fact that the Saudis produce so much goddamn crude that I don’t see how any American president, Dem or Rep, could afford to play serious hardball with the Saudis without seriously endangering the world economy.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see President H. Clintion or Obama doing much different.
Okay, Waldo, joke’s over. JS is just another one of your clever scripts, isn’t he?
More than anything else, this highlights the importance of sharply reducing our reliance on foreign oil ASAP. If we’re humoring Saudi Arabia about something as ostensibly vital as the source of foreign insurgents in Iraq, then clearly they’ve got us by the short and curlies. President Bush has made it clear that he has zero interest in addressing this problem. How remarkable that he’s so utterly owned by the oil industry that he’s willing to pretend that Saudi Arabia isn’t the source of many of our troubles in Iraq.
It’s hard to disagree, Waldo. I think Bush definitely should have done more right after 9/11 to force the Saudis to tamp down on their worldwide funding of Wahabbi mosques. Some have argued that taking a firmer line with the Saudis would have been “playing into bin Laden’s hands,” and no doubt there’s an element of truth to that. But to do so little, to stick with the devil you know, is not exactly working out great for us.