President Bush's Blind Spot - Saudi Arabia

[bryant69]

I don't hold out much hope for Michael Moore's movie changing everybodies minds. I suspect most people know what they believe and will stick there. But one area that Moore's movie highlights is the blind spot in the middle east that President Bush has carefully cultivated. President Bush will never go to work on Saudi Arabia who have funded Al-Qaeda and mosques throughout the middle east which teach Anti Americanism.

President Bush is too much in the pocket of the Saudis to ever really question them on these matters; so we need a guy in the white house who isn't in the Saudi's corner.

I think this is an argument that might get through to some who do want us to get those responsible for September 11th and the beheadings, but aren't totally brain dead.

Bryant
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[Voltaire]

1. Saudi is a blind spot

for Bush, no question. I think though that their tentacles reach so far into this government that getting rid of Bush will not end that. What is happening in Saudi will bring the entire world down very soon, its the pivot point for a lot of baaaaad shit.

[Warpy]

2. Shoot, this has been predicted for a very long time

I read an article in Harper's several years ago that talked about the factions within the royal family and outside it who are all just waiting for the old king to die to act. Saudi Arabia is heading for one colossal meltdown, and the old king can't last much longer.

The old king is now only a figurehead, but he's still a very powerful one in a culture that stresses obedience. However, the House of Saud has a very long tradition of accession by assassination, and the designated heirs will have a long and difficult fight if they want to retain power.

The population has seen high unemployment and a drying up of the government dole reducing their incomes. Huge numbers of people are being kept in poverty in a country that is garnering a great deal of the world's wealth through oil revenues. The people are simply not sharing in that wealth. Add to that the heavyhanded religious and political oppression combined with the threats they see to their culture from the outsiders who are brought in to do all the jobs, and you have a recipe for a great deal of rage ready to boil over.

Hold on to your hats, folks, it's going to be a bumpy few years ahead.