> I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia never had nukes pointed at us or tried to. This was in 1963. And they sure don't have nukes now, or are likely to acquire them.

> I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia never had nukes pointed at us or tried to. This was in 1963. And they sure don't have nukes now, or are likely to acquire them. Not to mention that you're conveniently forgetting US nukes in Italy and Turkey around the same time, or the Bay of Pigs invasion. > Why must the US reward the Castros? Why should it punish the Castros while turning a blind eye to Bahrain, who is busy oppressing its population with a brutality the Castro regime hasn't displayed in a long while? > Whataboutism isn't addressing my issues. If you didn't address the issue from a moral angle, your position may look a bit more solid than it is right now. Why not admit morality has a very small role to play in international politics, whatever narrative government dress it up in for internal consumption? > Sadly, knee-jerk anti-americanism passes for "intellectualism" around here. Oh, I'm not giving a pass to any government, don't worry.