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I don't see why the US should care about Mecca as far as financial leverage goes.
by ss108 4y ago
I don't see why the US should care about Mecca as far as financial leverage goes.
- NickC25 4y agoThe Saudis have an outsized influence on Islam as a whole, which is not financial leverage so much as it is a massive cultural leverage. Mecca was a huge (Muslim) tourist destination well before oil companies came to the Kingdom.
- ss108 4y agoWithout neccessarily dusputing what you're saying (which is a bit simplistic, but not wholly inaccurate), I just don't see why it matters in determining the US response here. But my comment was too much of a nit; I do agree the US should respond. If the Gulf Arabs want to act like grown men (which they aren't) then they can experience what that life is like.