Saudi Arabia is our enemy!

[Hogboy]

Yes, the official word from both the U.S. and the Saudis is that the relationship has never been better.  What a load of crap!

Most Saudis hate us now.  I remember that Time Magazine did a story on the attitudes of Saudis shortly after Sept. 11.  Many, if not most, of the ordinary Saudis they approached expressed admiration for Osama Bin Ladin and the Sept. 11 attacks and expressed hatred for the U.S.

Most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from Saudi and it is clear that Saudis make up the largest percentage (in terms of nationality) of known Al Qaeda members.  Islamic extremism is running rampant there.  The Saudis finance, supply, provide manpower for and otherwise support terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda who are dedicated to the destruction of America.  Crown Prince Abdullah and the other Saudis running the show just keep turning a blind eye to it.

We have no use for an "ally" who stabs us in the back.  To hell with them!  It's time to tell the Saudis to "stick it where the sun don't shine."  Let's buy our oil from Russia and let the Saudis go back to herding camels for a living!:D

[Gunthr]

I pretty much agree Hogboy. Islamic extremism is running rampant all over the Middle East. But there might be some good reasons for maintaining a working relationship with the Saudis...

[Goth]

I'll pay an extra dollar a gallon of gas for a year if it destroys the Saudi economy and sends those ungrateful scumbags back to the stone age, which they're not far from to begin with. I agree, we need to find our oil anywhere besides the middle east.

[Masherbrum]

While I concur with Goth, there also is the issue of the 5 AWACS they have.  The base that Reagan put in Dhahran (?) for the sum of $300billion dollars.

Problem is the gov't won't look elsewhere.  I say to hell with the middle east as a whole.  Israel included.  Let em kill themselves into extinction.   They would too

Masher

[ygsmilo]

We are destroying their economy every day they pump oil and sell it thus pulling down their reserves.....

[Toad]

Ah, Milo. The long-term "Chinese view" that the US is so often accused of not having.

Use their oil first. Save ours for later.

Wonder what they'll grow to eat on all that sand once the oil is gone?

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Toad

Wonder what they'll grow to eat on all that sand once the oil is gone?

"Soilent Green is PEOPLE!"

[miko2d]

Hogboy:...Saudis finance, supply, provide manpower for and otherwise support terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda who are dedicated to the destruction of America
 I am pretty sure that they only want to do so because we are interfering in their internal affairs - like supporting their monarchy. If we just left them alone to rot or topple their monarchy and build true muslim state a-la Afghanistan - driving it into the stone age in the process - who cares.

 Goth: I'll pay an extra dollar a gallon of gas for a year if it destroys the Saudi economy
 So you are willing to sacrifice a one time sum of what $1000? $2000? To save our democracy from ruin - not at the hands of terrorists but at the hands of our own government fighting terrorism? How generous...

 I will rase you. How about introducing fuel tax as to drive the price at the pump to $5/gallon - current European levels? Heck - aren't we better than pesky europeans - make it $8 gallon - forever. Not a huge price to pay to ensure that our most vital supply - energy - does not depend on the goodwill of our enemies and our politicians do not have an excuse to interfere with homicidal maniacs and our technology is not held back.
 Plus I will make sure my children enlist into US military for a term before they go on to their illustrious careers.

 Masherbrum: I say to hell with the middle east as a whole. Israel included. Let em kill themselves into extinction.
 I second that - just let reasonable people there immigrate to US first - 4-5 million of israelis and palestinians.

 miko

[Hortlund]

Originally posted by miko2d

 I second that - just let reasonable people there immigrate to US first - 4-5 million of israelis and palestinians.

Smart move...import the conflict to the US.

[miko2d]

Originally posted by Hortlund
Smart move...import the conflict to the US.

 That is dumb. What will they conflict about? Will palestinians try to remove a neighbouring jew from Israel? But that jew is already in US and out of Israel - as well as palestinian himself is out of Palestine.
 Plenty of jews and palestinians live here and do not display a slightest hostility towards each other.

 I guess you skipped that "reasonable" in my post - or do not know what it means...

 miko

[Masherbrum]

Miko is ABSOLUTELY correct!  

They are raised in HATE over in Israel (Palestinians included).  Raised in HATE, that simple.  But in reality it is pathetic.

Masher

[28sweep]

Saudi Arabia is the most pathetic country on Earth.  I have traveled there often.  When you arrive in Riyadh customs officials make you sign a declaration stating that if you get caught w/ drugs then they be-head you.  That’s ok-if it was equal for all but an American, European, or Saudi would just get a short jail sentence-a TCN (third country national) would get executed with-in the week.  Also, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that has no Church…officially anyway.  Christian TCN's are persecuted unmercifully.  In fact, when I was there last some Philippino men where caught setting up a Christmas Mass.  They were sentenced by a court to be executed for that.  The Capital of Islam is Saudi Arabia…a backwards country  that is the center of a backwards religion that should be stamped out once and for all.

[miko2d]

Originally posted by 28sweep
... that is the center of a backwards religion that should be stamped out once and for all.

 There is nothing more you can do to revitalise and propagate a religion than to try "stamping it out".
 Leave it to istelf to stew in its borders - it will crumble by itself.

 miko

[Masherbrum]

Which is why I will NEVER travel to the Middle East, not even to see Israel.   I will NOT slam ANY religion, that is not right.  I'm catholic, don't care what other people think.  But, everyone on this earth has the right to believe in religion, and if they don't, that is their right as well.

Masher

[Goth]

Originally posted by miko2d


 Goth: I'll pay an extra dollar a gallon of gas for a year if it destroys the Saudi economy
 So you are willing to sacrifice a one time sum of what $1000? $2000? To save our democracy from ruin - not at the hands of terrorists but at the hands of our own government fighting terrorism? How generous...

 I will rase you. How about introducing fuel tax as to drive the price at the pump to $5/gallon - current European levels? Heck - aren't we better than pesky europeans - make it $8 gallon - forever. Not a huge price to pay to ensure that our most vital supply - energy - does not depend on the goodwill of our enemies and our politicians do not have an excuse to interfere with homicidal maniacs and our technology is not held back.
 Plus I will make sure my children enlist into US military for a term before they go on to their illustrious careers.

 

 

Thanks miko...and for your information, I served 3 years active duty with the military during the cold war, and another 9 years in the National Guard where I have had the opportunity to go to the Middle East. I believe that my continued support of our great nation has been expressed by my actions and pocket book. And since you have decided to raise the stakes, yes, I will pay $5 dollars a gallon to get rid of the flea ridden scumbag middle easterners.

Yeah, I'm hot over this subject. I have never met a bigger bag of traitorous, deceiving, back stabbing, pieces of dung than what comes from that desolate part of the world. I am almost to the point where I would support genocide. I would wholeheartedly cheer if they just wiped each other off the face of the earth just like they did over 9/11.