friend or foe?
For the better part of the last 25 years my father has lived and traveled throughout the Middle East and Muslim world - from Syria to Pakistan - in his job as a petroleum engineer. However, he has never spent any time in Saudi Arabia. I once asked him why, and he responded without hesitation: "They're crazy."
Beyond the fact that most of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, that some hold fund-raisers for terrorist groups, and that most "radical-Islamic" teaching originates in the Kingdom, I am sometimes convinced that they go out of their way to give Arabs a bad name while fulfilling awful stereotypes.
Click here to see what I mean.
My big question: Why does the United States always "look the other way" with these guys? Could it have something to do with stuff like $1 million donations to the Bush and Clinton presidential libraries? Or is it all the oil we need for our Chevy Tahoes, plastic grocery bags and Ozarka bottled water?
1 comments:
That's the only explanation that makes any sense to me, unfortunately. I heard about that case and I can't help but think that if that happened in another country that we officially dislike, it would still be splashed all over the news.
So, what does someone like me do other than just whine bitterly?
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