When will we realize the Saudis are not our friends???

Answer 1

Just look at what they teach in their schools...

SAUDI SCHOOL BOOKS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901769_pf.html

The saudi kingdom is built on thievery, one that nurtures terrorism, destroys any possibility of a middle class based on property rights, and promotes slavery and prostitution. This kingdom also sits on one quarter of the world's oil reserves, thus ensuring that it receives the full support and protection of the U.S. government. The ruling family funnels millions of dollars to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules the Saudi street and teaches the most hateful & violent form of islam in Saudi schools*, to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most violent and hateful of the U.S. groups(This sort of "religious education" is going on in Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia -- generously funded by the House of Saud, unfortunately, the very students trained at these schools now view the Saudi royal family's existence as contrary to what they have been taught. Just keep in mind that quite a number of al-Qaeda's operatives have been trained in Saudi-sponsored madrasahs). This is in order to dissuade them from overthrowing the monarchy--a protection scheme that is shaky at best, given the hatred most citizens feel for the ruling family and the U.S.

Saudi Arabia has bought and paid for all the White House and Congressional influence it needs. This is why the recently released 9-11 report contains no mention of the secret documentation of Saudi Arabian complicity in the terrorism that took 3,000 American lives. As Senator Shelby noted on PBS NewsHour recently (he has read the secret report), 93% of the blanked out pages, and specifically those on Saudi sponsorship of terrorism against America and other nations, is a "con man's" effort to avoid "embarrassment." As the families of the 9-11 victims have said, "we need to know." The US ruling circles preferred to ignore the Saudi hatred as long as they could share in the Saudi spoils. Now the lower and middle class soldiers are paying in blood to maintain the links between the US's upper classes, the Saudi ruling family, and oil money. The CIA was so neutered that it was incapable of penetrating the numerous organizations such as the Islamic Brotherhood and other predecessors, affiliates, and allies of al Qaeda.

Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state. a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can?t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on??

Answer 2

STOP GENERALIZING THE PEOPLE!!!!!Saudis are like any other nation, you get good and you get bad!!!!By the way I don't think the Saudis would like to have YOU as a friend!!!!!

Answer 3

You can not classify all Saudi as "not our friends" some are really decent people and feel sadden by what the other extreme.

Answer 4

When the blackman educates the Americans in a right way..

Answer 5

Keep your freinds close but your enemys closer. They are not are freinds but we need to use them.

Answer 6

Perhaps when their oil supplies are depleted.

Answer 7

We use them.
They use and resent us.
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