Airforceone wrote:
What the hell are y hiou talking about your a refugee. These people are being Vetted. What a stupid comment. The vetting process has been in place for over 50 years. What is it with you people. I wished the hell this country spent more time vetting the ancestors of these GD evangelicals that hide there h**e for this country behide there bible. They preach h**e while hugging a bible.
The thousands of refugees Barack Hussein brought in came in en masse, no interval long enough to even get their middle name, and he had them "distributed" in large clumps to numerous American cities. I remember reading about that because Reno was one of them and I may be retiring there.
As for the Saudis, I'm the first to agree with you that they're not our friends, but on the same token they ARE useful to have as an ally for now because of the situation in the Middle East, and they need us as well, enough to keep 'em halfway honest.
See, when Obama went along, either cognizant of what he was doing or naive about it, with the "Arab Spring" myth, he opened some doors to some very dark places.
It actually began under Carter with the o*******w of Mohammed Riza Pahlavi, continued under Bush with the fall of Saddam Hussein, and in the "Arab Spring" continued with the ousters of Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Mohammad al-Qadhaffi.
These were all strongman dictators, for whom we in the west have little use.
However, what our politicians and diplomats fail to acknowledge, if they even think about it, is that until about a century ago, when we and France showed the Arabs how to recover their oil, the Arab world was, for all intents and purposes, still living in the 7th Century, while the west had evolved socially into the twentieth.
The Arab mindset and our mindset are like apples and oranges.
Most of those countries are veritable hotbeds of fundamentalism while the countries themselves, with the exceptions of Iran and a few others, had become a little more secular, such as Egypt, Libya, Iraq, etc. The fundamentalist factions are the fine folks we see cutting off heads, stoning women to death for not wearing a veil, amputating limbs as punishments and k*****g people for apostasy. These people are i**********n either waiting for the opportunity to present itself or rabble rousing in an effort to get a good, bloody revolution underway.
These "strongmen" prevent this, all to OUR good in the long run, by ruling with a heavy hand.This may not be to our liking, but in their world it is what it is.
Each time one of those strongmen has been removed, the vacuum created has provided the fundamentalists the opportunity to fill the void.
In Egypt, they did so through e******ns, a Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist got in, and when they saw where he was trying to take the country the military stepped in.
When Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq, Islamic State had a place to incubate. When Obama helped oust Qadhaffi, ISIL moved in to fill the vacuum. Years earlier, in Iran, secular and U.S. friendly Pahlavi was replaced by Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini, and modern day's single most oppressive and regionally disruptive theocracy was born.
The Saudi royal family walks a very thin line, their fundamentalist population, as they are the guardians of Mecca, very large and very powerful, and they've seen first hand what the "Arab Spring" has wrought among their neighbors. That's why they allow their religious police and others a certain amount of authority; they want to avoid i**********n by their own extremist factions.
They also fear Iran's regional ambitions, so they need us. We need them as well, for now, for the foothold they give us in the region.
As for their culpability on 9/11, the royal family consists of hundreds of spoiled megarich ne'er do wells, many of whose sympathies lie with the extremist factions, while the core family leadership tends to prefer a cordial relationship with the west.
Since most terrorism today is committed in the name of Allah yet mere mention of any Islamic connection draws yells of "r****t! Islamophobe!," how is it any different that, because most of the AQ tangos of 9/11 were Saudis (even though the Saudis had kicked OBL out of the country and condemned AQ even before 9/11), it's acceptable to blame Saudi Arabia?
We are r****ts for blaming any Muslims for an attack claimed by Al Qaeda or Islamic State, but we're okay with blaming all Saudis for 9/11, which their government denounced.
I didn't hear a peep out of the Democratic Party or the MSM when Obama BOWED to the Saudi king, so I have to assume that all this outrage had more to do with it being Trump involved than anything else.
Can you say, "double standard?"