Luddly Neddite
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Well...I dunno but I see public beheadings and stonings for false prophecy, blasphemy, adultery, witchcraft and sorcery and the public crucifixion and display of the headless body as pretty barbaric.Foxfyre said:You're right.They are terrorists. They are funding all the terror groups. Ask Hillary.
WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists
You want me to take Hillary Clinton's word for it? Really? The same Hillary who reported the "Russian reset?" The same Hillary who helped create the chaos in Lybia? The same Hillary who demonstrated 'extreme carelessness' with classified material? The same Hillary who tells stories even a fawning and adoring media had to say were false?
This Hillary?
During her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made weapons transfers to the Saudi government a “top priority,” according to a new report published in The Intercept. While Clinton’s State Department was deeply invested in getting weapons to Saudi Arabia, the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars in donations from both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the weapons manufacturer Boeing. Christmas presents were being gifted all around.Saudi's Exploding Christmas Gifts From Hillary Clinton | HuffPost
Obama/Hillary's policies towards arming the Middle East and supporting barbaric regimes were terrible.
Trump, of course, was going to be different.
Not so much it seems.
I don't see Saudi Arabia as a barbaric regime, however. They do not exercise economic or physical warfare on their neighbors, no threats, no policy of eradicating Israel from the face of the Earth. They do not have diplomatic relations with Israel but neither have they participated in any hostilities toward Israel and I have read that they helped Israel take out Iraq's nuclear reactor in the early 1980's as I recall. And they have been a reliable ally of the United States when asked for help.
Yes their culture is distinctly alien to ours and while we see theirs as oppressive and regressive they no doubt see ours as decadent and corrupt. And yet we have managed to remain friends for a long time now.
But I'll freely admit that this just might be my cultural upbringing bringing me to unfair judgement.
So are you suggesting we should go to war with Saudi Arabia and stop all that stuff? There are other countries that even do worse.
As I see it we can use the friendship of other countries, even those with cultures we abhor, for our own benefit and theirs, and hope they will evolve and become more civilized as the USA has perhaps done--meanwhile they hope we will see the error of our ways and clean up our act--
or
We can shun them and refuse to do business with them and thereby provide them with no good example to follow
or
We can try to force them to become what we consider acceptable in a country. That hasn't worked out too well for us where we have tried it though.
That seems to be our choices.
"There are other countries that even do worse".
Now THAT is pathetic.
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