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Can't mess with the Saudis. But we sure can ban the people they are bombing to hell, you know the Yemenis with British made bombs no less. And ban all the other
by devoply 10y ago
Can't mess with the Saudis. But we sure can ban the people they are bombing to hell, you know the Yemenis with British made bombs no less. And ban all the other people whose countries we helped destroy, you know just to add insult to injury. Really the best way to make people think we the vanguards of freedom. I am sure though Trump has some business dealing with the Saudis, I think there is a Trump hotel in Dubai.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/306990-trump-appeared-to-register-eight-companies-in-saudi-arabia http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/306990-trum...
- inopinatus 10y agoDubai is not in Saudi Arabia. It's in the UAE. However his family have expressed interest in building hotels in Saudi Arabia. My guess though was the omission has more to do with energy price stability and/or arms exports.
- tritosomal 10y agoYeah, as this fiasco unfolds, the last thing we need is people lumping countries together while complaining about other people lumping countries together. Dubai is a city in a different country. Same peninsula, but there's like seven countries dividing up that chunk of land.
- Animats 10y agoThe US gets only 8.1% of its oil from Saudi Arabia now, and that's dropping each year. The US is at last in a position to tell Saudi Arabia where to get off.
- devoply 10y agoUS and Britain sell the Saudis over 100 billion dollars in arms. You can't get Saudis off your back with just no longer needing their oil. They still got money. And the military industrial complex needs to eat.
- zyxzkz 10y agoIt's a political thing. Oil is a fungible resource. Saudi Arabia helps control the market. US doesn't want to lose that power by pissing them off. As oil goes, so goes the world.
- refurb 10y agoUS fracking pissed Saudi Arabia off big time. The gov't didn't seem to mind.
- eva1984 10y agoSaudi is a big buyer of US weapons. Considering how hard Trump tries to please and borrow influence from military, I doubt he is going to do anything about it. Race and religion matters, if you are not in the league, you better make sure you have power or money, or something to offer. At least to me, that is what Trump believes.
- devoply 10y agoRace and religion are for the masses. It's a tool to divide and conquer them. The elite only speak the language of power and money. The Saudis make their people follow archaic Islamic laws with sexual repression while their princes are sexually abusing Americans in America and their royals have harems filled with Americans prostitutes. It's ridiculous.
- refurb 10y agoWhy would the US military care about selling weapons? They are made by private companies.
- adventured 10y agoThe US military can sometimes get their weapons cheaper, if there are a lot of foreign buyers to share the cost in various ways. If Lockheed is successful and able to fund itself well, fund new weapons programs, the military is happier for obvious reasons. Not to mention the crossover between the public and private spheres when it comes to careers.
- coredog64 10y agoThere is also a follow on effect. If other countries have F-15s, the US needs to have something better. Today we are friends, but that could change (e.g. Iran and the F-14)
- finid 10y agoIt's about jobs, jobs. Programs building weapons that other countries buy keep jobs. And the Saudi's buy a ton of weapons.
- gambiting 10y agoIsn't it true, that the second US tells Saudi Arabia where they can stick their oil, they will become best friends with Russia? And isn't this the reason why US tries to keep good relations with them,despite the whole country being a cancer of humanity?
- akamaozu 10y agoA whole country a cancer to humanity? I suspect this sort of generalization is what caused the student visa problem in the first place.