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Isn't it naive to think of these countries as one entity? Is the US, or any Western country, one unified allied voice where everyone has the same policies or s
by sbarre 11y ago
Isn't it naive to think of these countries as one entity? Is the US, or any Western country, one unified allied voice where everyone has the same policies or supports the same causes?
It's very likely that these "rich oil-producing countries" are made up of fragmented power centres and viewpoints, just like everywhere else in the world.
Painting these countries all with one brush is about as foolish as painting Christianity (or Islam) with one brush too.
- cm2187 11y agoBut the fact is that they are a safe-heaven from the US anti-terror campaign. After 9/11, pretty much in any other country of the world the financiers of Al Qaeda would have been imprisoned or assassinated by the US and its allies. In Saudi Arabia or Qatar, not only they have not, but they are still heavily financing ISIS. Whether the monarchies are complicit or not, they are certainly not doing anything against this financing.
- jacquesm 11y agoThis is a slightly dated but pretty good primer on how ISIS manages to pay the bills to keep the lights on: http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/14/how-does-isis-fund-its-reign-terror-282607.html http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/14/how-does-isis-fund-its-re...
- rihegher 11y agoCorrect me if I am wrong but money transfers are controlled at state scale or even at higher scale. Banks are liable to states about where money goes or come from, so yes I think you can brush some countries with a level of control on money flow. Some with really strict control and some less strict or even tolerant in some cases.