Quote Originally Posted by Redleg View Post
As far as I am concerned what is bad for Saudi Arabia is good for the world. The government of Saudi Arabia has been double-dealing the west for years, feeding the religious extremists with reasons and excuses to hate the west, at times even encouraging it to focus its people on forgetting what their own government is doing to them. While at the same time the royal family continues to reap the wealth of a single vital resource.
Fair enough. I assumed that, as Saudi is at least ostensibly a US ally, there would have been some desire to back their side. Personally, even before the Iraq invasion, I felt Saudi and Pakistan were the two countries we should have done something about.