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Saudi King Abdullah Nixes Bush Friendship
« on: 2007-04-02 08:33:41 » |
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[Blunderov] I mentioned in another post that a prominent Saudi had rubbished O.I.L. calling it 'illegitimate'. That prominent Saudi was in fact King Abdullah. No amount of spin can transform this remark into anything other than a rejection of the USA. King Abdullah goes on to speak of how "we will not allow forces from outside the region to determine the future of the region, and only the flag of Arabism will be raised on Arab soil."
(It seems possible to infer that the American national proclivity for flying the Stars and Stripes on every conceivable occasion has gone unabated in Iraq. I'll take a Pepsi challenge on it anyway.)
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/195
Saudi King Abdullah Nixes Bush Friendship: Using Iraq War to Unite Arabs Against America
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 03/30/2007 - 3:08pm. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Less than two years ago, President Bush struck a nerve with many Americans by frolicking around in a forest with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Their open holding of hands provoked laughter and questions about the cordial relationship between Saudi Arabia and the Bush family.
How things have changed.
Abdullah, now King, blasted America in an Arab summit last Wednesday for what he termed the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of Iraq. He also called for a "united Arab front" over Middle East policy.
The same day, the Washington Post reported that Abdullah made a "sudden and sparsely explained cancellation" of a formal state dinner in the White House planned for mid-April.
The shift signals further proof that the war in Iraq has totally backfired from what Bush and the neocons envisioned in their rosy projections. After the Iraqis greeted us as liberators, democracy was supposed to spread freely throughout the region.
Instead, a monarch in a nation where flogging is a routine punishment and women cannot drive cars is using America as a common enemy to woo countries like Iran, Syria, and Russia. The New Nation speculates that Saudi Arabia's growing clout may allow it to achieve superpower status, at least in the Middle East.
King Abdullah's vision for Arab unity exceeds the mere securing of Iraq. Through Muslim solidarity, he said, "the winds of hope will blow on the nation, and then, we will not allow forces from outside the region to determine the future of the region, and only the flag of Arabism will be raised on Arab soil."
Bush's war may have changed the Middle East, but certainly not in the way he intended. If King Abdullah ever decides to see Bush again, he might just have to settle for a simple handshake.
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
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Re:Saudi King Abdullah Nixes Bush Friendship
« Reply #1 on: 2007-04-02 21:28:25 » |
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A word to the wise: Arab unity precludes Iran (which is not Arab). The analysis by Scott Ritter (Refer the Post Script referenced here: http://www.churchofvirus.org/bbs/index.php?board=69;action=display;threadid=38841), though complex (as it describes a complex situation) is to my mind accurate. So long as religious differences split the Middle East, other powers, East and West will continue to nullify them by setting the various factions at loggerheads. Rather as Europe spent 600 years fighting over the reformation, a war which seems to be developing new life in America, where the solution to a withdrawal from the Middle East, avoiding the consequences of environmental catastrophe and even avoiding war crime charges appears to be "Jesus is Coming - Real Soon Now." To us logical types this may appear to be a little tendentious, but to the Bush camp and its adoring followers, it is the perfect exit strategy.
I'm just hoping the rest of us are not forced to drink the kool aid.
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