Frank Apisa wrote:
Since this attack was presented as a response to the 9-11 attack on us...and since almost the entire attacking group was Saudi....just why in hell do you consider it anything less than insane to attack a country that posed a threat to Saudi Arabia.
Why would WE not be posing a threat to Saudi Arabia??????????
The government's probably not going to do it (invade Saudi Arabia) for several reasons I could think of, including:
1. The Saudi GOVERNMENT has given us no cause for it. A few of their lunatic CITIZENS obviously have given us cause for action, but we have lunatic citizens of our own (democrats for instance).
Here's what I think happened on 9-11. The old guy who's been running Saudi Arabia is about to croak and the guys next in line are all in their seventies (time ain't on their side either), and Osama binLaden, being in the next generation down, thought he saw a chance to leapfrog the septuagenarians if he could score enough moxie points by walking up to the 800-lb. gorilla which appeared to be asleep, and kicking him in the balls. The reason he figured he could get by with that was the total lack of response to similar but smaller scale atrocities over the last eight years; he figured the Americans would simply lob a few cruise missiles his way and, after a few weeks, it'd blow over. If he had any idea what was actually going to happen, he'd not have done it.
This whole deal of course, had absolutely nothing to do with Israel, and absolutely nothing to do with American policies in the middle east. It had everything to do with Clinton's lack of a policy towards terrorism. In the history of the world there is no example of a country being attacked for appearing to be too strong and resolute. You get attacked by appearing weak and feckless.
2. Saudi Arabia is a major fraction of the world's total oil production and throwing Saudi Arabia into political chaos could throw the entire world into chaos. Oil of course is totally fungible and the fact that we buy very little of our oil from Saudi would not help us.
There are several other reasons why the government isn't likely to do anything directly about Saudi Arabia, nonetheless, recent events, influenced by American action in the region, have put the Saudi government painfully on notice that they cannot tolerate terrorism in their midst and they appear to be taking it a great deal more seriously.
Now, aside from government action, the other possibily I can see here would be something like an old people's version of one of the children's crusades of the middle ages. If you can organize something like that for people over 50, I'll join you in a heartbeat. The objectives should include the overthrow of the Saudi regime, the elimination of Islam and the forcible conversion of Saudi Arabia and the entire middle east to either Christianity of Judaeism, and the capture of that big green monstrosity we see pictures of and its conversion into an NFL football stadium. Teach the idiots to play football, and with any luck they'll give up on other forms of violence and terrorism.
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