Why does the US claim to support freedom when it supports Saudi Arabia?

Question

Right wing Americans constantly get on their high horse and condemn countries like Syria and Iraq. This is complete hypocracy as these same right wing fascists support the worst Islamic fundamentalist regime of them all, Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia terrible human rights abuses take place and public beheadings are commonplace yet because their Monarchy supports US foreign policy, the US supports them. America also supported Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan in the 1980's and actually indoctrinated many of its people with these religious views, it is ironic that the Afghans are now fighting the Americans. It should also be remembered that the US also supported Saddam Hussein in the 80's and actually supplied him with the weapons that were used to massacre innocent people. Why then do these hypocrites condemn Iran and Syria when they support similar regimes at the same time?

I notice that all the right wing fascists who usually answer my questions within minutes have no answer to this one as they know this shows them for the hypocrites that they really are

Answer 1

You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the word hypocrisy. The U.S. is one of the worst in the world when it comes to true support of what its so-called leaders have espoused as democratic "ideals." The fact is that the U.S. does whatever it feels is in its best corporate interests at the time, democratic ideals be hanged. When the American public finally awakens to the fact that our republic is a sham, bought and paid for and controlled by corporate moguls, there will be political tremors up and down every main street in the country.

Answer 2

I really only want to address the 'public beheading' issue. KSA has used capital punishment no more than America has in the last 25 years. In American they hide it in a little room for just 10 people to see and like to pretend they are civilized while the rest of the world is not. Beheading may be hard on the person watching but it is likely better on the person receiving the sword verses 50,000 volts or a long painful chemical death.
The thing is that none of us are so different from the next guy. America has more similarities with KSA, Iran, Syria and every other country on the planet.

Answer 3

Saudi currently is the best of many bad choices... much as Saddam was in Iraq. The Royal family has pledged to keep the oil flowing to the west & have been somewhat supportive of the Bush administration. Saddam of course insulted the Bush family at every turn. The Royals in Saudia Arabia have toned down their verbal attacks on Israel... although many stiill support terrorist organizations on the side.
In a nutshell... we are not concerned with human rights violations anywhere. If that were the case, we'd not have a massive trade imbalance with China. We are concerned with corporate profit and putting more money in the pockets of large Wall Street investors. (Chuckle) The 90% of Americans that have no significant investment in the Stock Market are but serfs to be replaced with ever cheaper labor to be it imported legally or illegally or out sourced to countries with slave labor. In short, Corporate America is concerned with increasing the bottom line profit & they have no moral convictions that impede this goal.

Answer 4

Because its need for oil outweighs its need to support freedom, at least in this case. I'm no liberal, that's for sure, and I actually support our ongoing effort in Iraq, but I'm not dumb enough to think that this is about anything other than oil. It's selfish of me, I admit, but I'd rather have a stable Middle East and pay less than $3.00/gal for gas than to pull our troops out immediately and completely de-stablize the region, as well as end up paying $5.00, $6.00 a gallon.

Answer 5

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Answer 6

why do you aSK SUCH EMBARRESING QUESTIONS??