Posted by
On the Right on Friday, March 30, 2007 5:53:50 PM
Some more interesting information from OpinionJournal.com. [March 29, 2007]
Could be we should let our friends, the Saudis fend for themselves?
Our Friends the Saudis
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=94311&d=29&m=3&y=2007
"Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday lambasted
the 'illegitimate foreign occupation' of Iraq by US-led forces and urged
Arab leaders attending a historic summit in the Saudi capital not to
allow foreign powers to determine the future course of the region," the
Arab News reports from Riyadh:
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In his keynote address opening the two-day summit, King Abdullah called
upon Arab leaders to usher in a new era in Arab joint work while
holding them accountable for disunity in the Arab world over the past
decades.
"In Iraq, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of an illegitimate
foreign occupation and hateful sectarianism, threatening a civil war,"
King Abdullah said after taking over the presidency of the 23-member
Arab League from Sudan's President Omar Bashir.
*** END QUOTE ***
This is the thanks we get for stationing our troops on the Arabian
Peninsula for a dozen years to defend the occupying Saud family from Saddam
Hussein, and for remaining in Iraq, as, among other things, a check on
Saudi Arabia's Shiite rival, Iran?
Well, yes, we suppose it is. Today's Saudi ingratitude is of a piece
with Western European ingratitude during and after the Cold War. It's
human nature, at least among those who are not mature enough to take
responsibility for themselves, to resent those on whom one depends. Ask any
parent of teenagers.