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From my understanding Turkey had a basically "hear no evil, see no evil" policy for anti-Assad rebels and arms-shipments across their border and the US encourag
by forgotpwtomain 11y ago
From my understanding Turkey had a basically "hear no evil, see no evil" policy for anti-Assad rebels and arms-shipments across their border and the US encouraged this(!).
As for Saudi Arabia, their government is just about as bad as Assad on human rights - which of course doesn't prevent the US and US politicians from being very cozy with them as long as it serves their geo-political agenda.
- ihsw 11y agoHonestly, regarding Saudi Arabia, I think their strategy is to buy as much equipment as possible so that the West has no choice but to prop up the House of Saud. Why do they have no choice? Well, if the House of Saud falls then the weapons would reach the hands of jihadist terrorists before you can say "9/11," and the Royal Saudi Army has a very large stockpile of all of the best hardware you can buy with petrodollars.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoAn airforce able to rival the Marines does not "fall into the hands of terrorists". Saudi Arabia wants to be a regional power and wants to back that up with force. Oh and suppress domestic unrest.
- jqm 11y ago"As for Saudi Arabia, their government is just about as bad as Assad on human rights" They are a whole lot worse.
- dsfyu404ed 11y agoIt's hard to be worse than mustard gas...
- jqm 11y agoDid Assad actually use mustard gas? Is stockpiling mustard gas better or worse than stockpiling nuclear missiles? Just things to think about. As for human rights... KSA is considerably worse than Assad.