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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
What! An Islamic country would never attack another Islamic country! They are just all warm fuzzies  . |
Nobody thinks that. The point is we are using it as an excuse to sell our latest and greatest to a regime which everybody knows:
- its populace is very Anti-American
- House of Saud is a deck of cards that WILL fall eventually (very much the same way the Shah did)
- the Saudis have an atrocious human rights record
- a significant anti-government faction is already present in Saudi Arabia
There IS a significant chance that those fancy toys we sell them will be used to kill Americans one day. Yet we continue to build a large chunk of that regime's military for them, in the hope that they will help us out with the Iranians and be very, very nice to us regarding their only resource. Neither of which I see happening presently or in the future. Playing Middle East arms pimp is going to bite us again, just like it did almost thirty years ago.
PD