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Originally Posted by Positive Balance  If anyone here is paranoid it is you. I never said or even implied that the Syrian regime must be brought down. You didn't answer my question though. So I'll rephrase. What will happen to your view vis-a-vis the US if their stance towards Saudi Arabia really does deteriorate because of the terrorism coming out from there? Plus, if the reports that you referred to in the initial post of this thread are true, how does this work with the theory that the US is a prime sponsor of religiously fundamentalist terrorists? Does it not rather possibly indicate that elements within even the current US administration are opposed to religious extremism, and that they are now rethinking whether a strategic convergence of goals with the Saudis is worth overlooking the ideological differences? Realistically, how should we treat Saudi Arabia in foreign relations terms? Can we expect ourselves to be able to bring about change there, and is positive change a viable and attainable goal, and if not in the short term, how should our relations be with Saudi until that time? Now, it is obvious that to you Saudi Arabia is the most dangerous state in the region because of religious fanaticism sanctioned by the regime, but I feel that your single-minded focus on Saudi Arabia leads you to ignore the 'lesser evils' of whom we also have many. Your reply to me makes that evident: I ask you some questions, to which your response is to chastise me for supposedly wanting to bring down the Syrian regime rather than treating my questions to you with even a bare minimum of respect... |
I am not here on trial nor are you an intelliegence agent subjucating me into an interrogation. Those questions have to be asked to the hypocrites among politicians, including Jumblat and Hariri where both would not have been anything without the support of the syrian baathi regime. As for me, US policies of supporting Israel its ruthless vicious policies toward the innocent palestinains where this state was built on the skulls of those innocent this policy will always make me react the way I am reacting now against the US foreign policies. Add to it the illegal occupation of Iraq and the desctruction and the miseries it brought to Iraq and I will not change my opinion about the US foreign policies.
Our relationship with saudis should not be based on money and subservience to their policies and wahhabism. 80% of mosques in US are supported by the KSA. Only those preachers who are certified by ISNA that is mostly on the payroll of KSA can teach in the US army, jails and be experts in courts where the opinion of an Islamic preacher is needed and so on... In europe it is worse. Everywhere else KSA put people on its payroll. Now we have the tentacles of the wahhabi all over our lives and whenever a fanatic execute an attack muslims get blamed that they are not doing enough to stem terrorists and fanatics while the US and the west not only is not doing anything but fueling the rage among muslims and looking the other way when it comes to drying the pool of recruits and stopping the spread of fanaticism.