RE: Saudi journalist killed and hacked inside Saudi embassy in Istanbul
October 23, 2018 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2018 at 2:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 23, 2018 at 10:25 am)AtlasS33 Wrote:I can only reiterate the fact that the US has no interest in supporting your enemies. We support reliable actors who wield institutional authority, our government isn't cutting billion dollar deals with your neighbor up the street (even though he's a superswell guy!). With all the attempts at regime change in the middle east these past few decades a person might even start to think that we're not entirely satisfied with our regional partners. The saudi regime, ideologically, is trash..but they provide political stability. That's how they've held on to their sovereignty and support.(October 22, 2018 at 6:59 am)Khemikal Wrote: SA's resources, strategic location, and institutional continuity are what made us allies. The middle east is a full roster of ghouls, at present (gee...what could they all have in common, lol?), so we're bound to end up as allies to one ghoul that at least fits the three above......
...however, there's good news! If some hypothetical non murdery regime replaced the current, we'd be their buddies too. Get to work!
But that is one stinky foreign policy; in social life we call such a person who only sees their interest as "selfish","exploiter". I mean this is very insulting because the Middle East has good people still; they are hiding only because they are scared, and because foreign politician -like the American and the Russian- seem to support only their enemies.
Maybe there's nothing wrong with Muslims having bad people like MBS. But it has to do with the western -and American;especially- foreign policy that sees everybody as a ghoul, and has a xenophobic basket that it puts all foreigners in.
And it results in supporting ghouls like the Sauds, and justify it with lame excuses like "but..everybody is a ghoul !"
You don't see that this mentality is so damaging and selfish?
They're who we have to work with. We can see it as a roster of ghouls because it is..our seeing it that way didn't make it so..and if we could make things otherwise just by seeing whatever we desired we would, lol. Alas, The Great Satan fails to live up to it's rep again.
What's damaging and selfish is the regions ability to produce and then sustain strongmen (and authoritarian regimes).
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