Posted by
Boaz on Saturday, July 28, 2007 1:39:37 AM
Just shoot me, please
The Bush administration has
decided to supply billions of dollars in advanced new weapons to
Saudi Arabia , other Arab allies of the United States and... and why don't they just shoot me?
Let's make note here: 19 of the 9/11 jihadiim were Saudis, Osama is Saudi and your Aunt Myrtle could tell you, there is a lot wrong with selling smart bomb tech to your enemies. This is the same road Bill Clinton went down with the ChiComs, giving them the tech to target accurately with their ICBM's and MIRV's.
If this weapons upgrade is a good idea, then so is giving North Korea oil for acting like they might , maybe at some point in the future give up their nuke program, kinda, sorta. Which W also did. There is a point of diminishing returns when outfitting ones enemies with the weapons with which to wage war against our "not enemies"
In this type of situation, a bit of Capitalism can go a long way, and even be carried to far. Such as the Rosenburgs did with the former soviet Union. That was Capitalism carried to the extreme, for ideological reasons, but also for filthy lucre.
There are I'm sure some very good reasons to provide the tech to The House of Saud, if one is a half wit in need of.... dang, I can't thinkof a single thing a half-wit would need which might prompt him to sell weapons to the Saudis. Except for Michael jackson.
More and better weapons in a region which has at the very core of their existence a millenia long feud going on, a feud in which the players don't know or care about logic or reason or who lived where first anymore.
Reminds me of when I was ten years old and I got my first chance to play with cherry bombs and M-80's.
Why do I feel like Forrest Gump got elected to the Presidency?
And before you go there, I do in fact believe the right choice was made, the only thing worse than W would have been John effen Kerry, whose picture along with the Breck Boy is still glued to the inside of my toilet bowl at work.
How I long for the day when Congressman Duncan Hunter is a nationally electable kind of guy. That will be the day the jihadiim cry out to mooooohamud for mercy against their enemy, and it won't do any good. moohammud is dead and so is their allah. God the Father kicked his butt and took his name out of the Book of Life.