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What you are saying is not true. If some individuals (like one billionth of Earth population) decided to buy, shop, play golf, etc. in Dubai that does not mean

by jan_g 18y ago

What you are saying is not true. If some individuals (like one billionth of Earth population) decided to buy, shop, play golf, etc. in Dubai that does not mean that everyone on Earth collectively ignored/supported/whatever some medieval regimes in middle east. Generalization is seldom appropriate and certainly not in this case.

mahmud 18y ago
"What you are saying is not true. If some individuals (like one billionth of Earth population) decided to buy, shop, play golf, etc. in Dubai that does not mean that everyone on Earth collectively ignored/supported/whatever some medieval regimes in middle east." Except it's not individuals. It's your governments, US and UK, that are propping up every tyrannical backward regime in the Arab world, not to mention minion usurping entities like Israel. The Petrodollar pwns your faux-democracies and you KNOW it :-) 100 years ago the Westerners went into the "middle east" to capitalize on arab oil and take advantage of the illiterate Bedouin. Remnants of this is still seen in Western culture, the caricature of the stupid wealthy arab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd1D9T1koCI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd1D9T1koCI Alas, that's not how it turned out to be. Leaders of the free world are not wasting time bowing to oil Sheikhs, kissing rings and holding hands (need I link to the recent BO controversy?) Bin Laden's family were escorted out of the USA by the secret service few days after 911. British company, BAE, was caught red-handed in bribery to close a multibillion dolars arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and the Sheikhs threatened dire consequences if the UK government prosecuted BAE and got their way. The West and its values are a _bitch_ for hire, and a very cheap one at that. And you know what I think of them when they cry foul wrt to "human rights"? I just think they haven't been paid yet to keep quiet :-) [Edit: P.S. How come I'm the only one here posting links and substantiating evidence? you guys are just content with gut-feeling? ;-]
- jan_g 18y ago
  I don't need additional evidence for stuff that is common knowledge. Certainly, what you say about western nations' exploitations in the past (and present) is true. That does not make criticism of Dubai untrue or unnecessary.

by jan_g 18y ago

mahmud 18y ago

"What you are saying is not true. If some individuals (like one billionth of Earth population) decided to buy, shop, play golf, etc. in Dubai that does not mean that everyone on Earth collectively ignored/supported/whatever some medieval regimes in middle east." Except it's not individuals. It's your governments, US and UK, that are propping up every tyrannical backward regime in the Arab world, not to mention minion usurping entities like Israel. The Petrodollar pwns your faux-democracies and you KNOW it :-) 100 years ago the Westerners went into the "middle east" to capitalize on arab oil and take advantage of the illiterate Bedouin. Remnants of this is still seen in Western culture, the caricature of the stupid wealthy arab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd1D9T1koCI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd1D9T1koCI Alas, that's not how it turned out to be. Leaders of the free world are not wasting time bowing to oil Sheikhs, kissing rings and holding hands (need I link to the recent BO controversy?) Bin Laden's family were escorted out of the USA by the secret service few days after 911. British company, BAE, was caught red-handed in bribery to close a multibillion dolars arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and the Sheikhs threatened dire consequences if the UK government prosecuted BAE and got their way. The West and its values are a _bitch_ for hire, and a very cheap one at that. And you know what I think of them when they cry foul wrt to "human rights"? I just think they haven't been paid yet to keep quiet :-) [Edit: P.S. How come I'm the only one here posting links and substantiating evidence? you guys are just content with gut-feeling? ;-]

jan_g 18y ago
I don't need additional evidence for stuff that is common knowledge. Certainly, what you say about western nations' exploitations in the past (and present) is true. That does not make criticism of Dubai untrue or unnecessary.