Why are we doing the Saudi's dirty work?

[cilla4progress]

Makes me feel like a whore.

[Purveyor]

1. Or israel's for that matter. They have been advocating taking out Assad for years

not unlike their encouragement for the invasion of Iraq. See link at message footer.

[jamzrockz]

3. They also called

for Gaddafi to step down. In fact, I think they should not be listened to. They want Gaddafi to stay? ignore them and vice versa.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. ,

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[polichick]

4. Lots o' profits for a powerful few.

[Sunlei]

5. They hired blackwater to keep 'protesters' out of their country, perhaps they can hire,

'boots on the ground' to help their neighbor countries kick out the terrorist hoards that kill off the smaller ethnic groups. At least they should pay for some of this 'trouble', it is their part of the world.

Perhaps the Saudis don't care if their neighbor countries tear each other to pieces and kill off thousands. Long as they stay out of Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

[roamer65]

6. All for the oil, all for the oil.

Hopefully someday it will stop and we will have a truly independent foreign policy.

[viniketa]

7. all for the money

It's not all for the oil. The US is largest arms & military-related goods & services dealer in that region.

[flamingdem]

8. Oil

Yep

[flamingdem]

9. And arms

Vinetka is correct.

[Arthur_Frain]

10. Guess I'm not the only one

who thinks that sending money and trainers to folks who espouse Wahhabi-ism is going to backfire somehow.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. because freedumb

and this: