A pimp is a pimp is a pimp, selling his girls for market value. We
don't invite pimps in for dinner or to our company Christmas Party.
But let that same pimp strike it rich and sign up an army and take
over some little nation that sits on top of rich oil fields, and we
roll out the red carpet and set the table with our finest china and
silver.
And yet, a pimp is a pimp is a pimp regardless of what he is peddling.
By the way, speaking of beheading...we were, weren't we? In Jolly old
England they not only oft their 'eds, they stuck them on the end of
staffs along the London Bridge, so all could see what became of those
who forgot their manners.
Thank the Good Lord, we're civilized these days. No beheading that I
know of. By the way, have you ever had a red hot curling iron shoved
up your ass? There are tortures that make beheading seem almost
civilized.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/20/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fisk writes: "Saudi Arabia's million barrel a day output, plus its
strategic
location in the Middle East, means the West must pay obeisance to the
regional head-choppers."
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the
start of a bilateral meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in
2015. (photo: Reuters)
Obama Knows 9/11 Was Linked to Saudi Arabia - but It Has Oil
By Robert Fisk, The Independent
20 April 16
Saudi Arabia's million barrel a day output, plus its strategic location in
the Middle East, means the West must pay obeisance to the regional
head-choppers
Goor old Barack. Off he goes to Riyadh to talk to his so-called ally, Saudi
Arabia. The Sunni Wahhabi kingdom long ago run out of patience with the US
president, who befriended Shiite Iran and who failed to destroy the Alawite
(read: Shiite) regime in Syria. So why is Obama even bothering coming to
the
Gulf? Does he have any friends left among the kings, emirs and princes of
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates and Oman?
Obama won't be entering the Saudi lions' den. The Saudis were never as
brave
as lions - which is why they let the decidedly unprincely Osama bin Laden
lead the Arab legion in Afghanistan - but the little cubs now trying to run
the country are very angry.
The ambitious, ruthless deputy crown prince and defence minister, Mohamed
bin Salman, launched the kingdom's crazed war against the Houthi rebels in
Yemen last year, convinced (without evidence) that Iran was arming them.
The
young Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubair - brilliant former Washington
ambassador, a man with a silken, dangerously eloquent tongue - has no
hesitation in denouncing Western weakness.
And, according to the New York Times, the Saudis have even threatened to
sell billions of dollars of their US assets if Congress passes a bill
allowing the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for
the crimes against humanity of 9/11.
And that, indeed, is the foundation of the US-Saudi mess right now. Of the
19 hijackers involved in 9/11, 15 were Saudis, a fact diplomatically
ignored
in the years immediately following the attacks. The Saudis bankrolled the
Taliban for many years.
The Americans believe - rightly - that Isis itself today receives much
support from within Saudi Arabia, though they haven't gone quite so far as
to say the government is behind this. Saudi Arabia, in other words, is
regarded in Washington as a very dodgy nation to be an ally.
But Obama's got to pretend to King Salman (the crown prince's Dad) that the
US still stands four-square behind the kingdom's security and sovereignty -
he can hardly say he's going to support Saudi 'democracy' for obvious
reasons - and it's clear that the country's massive oil reserves, its
million barrels a day output, strategic location and control of Sunni
Muslim
finances, means that the West has got to go on paying obeisance to all the
regional head-choppers.
Be sure that when King Salman dies (and may he live for many years), David
Cameron will once more lower the Union flag in mourning as he did for his
predecessor.
The real problem is that - after years of fantasy in which, against all the
evidence, the Americans persuaded themselves that the Saudis were a 'force
for moderation' in the Middle East - the Obama administration has decided
that Shiite Iran and the huge influence it exerts over the Shiite
governments of Iraq and Syria (and over the Shiite Hizballah in Lebanon) is
a better bet than the Sunni Salafists of Arabia. Hence the nuclear deal
with
Tehran's new leaders, the end of sanctions against Iran and the
slowly-dawning realisation among Sunnis that Washington is going to
tolerate
the continuation of Bashar al-Assad's rule in Damascus.
Iran may, as it was under the Shah, become the policeman of the Gulf. The
Saudis will have to share power with them. The US wants no more "free
riders" (as Obama snottily described the Saudis) supporting Isis.
The Obama line, which will be peddled heavily this week, is that diplomacy
rather than war must resolve the Sunni-Shia conflict; that America is not
going to embark on any more military adventures in the Middle East (nor,
one
suspects, give much more support to Crown Prince Mohamed's adventure in
Yemen).
It would be good to know what the censored 28 pages of the official US 9/11
report said about the Saudis. Maybe Obama will mention that in Riyadh? Any
more talk of withdrawing billions of US assets might just persuade the
Americans to open the book and let us take a peek into those secrets.
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valid.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the
start of a bilateral meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in
2015. (photo: Reuters)
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/obama-knows-911-was-linked-to-saudi-arab
ia-its-massive-oil-reserves-are-behind-his-official-visit-a6992561.htmlhttp:
//www.independent.co.uk/voices/obama-knows-911-was-linked-to-saudi-arabia-it
s-massive-oil-reserves-are-behind-his-official-visit-a6992561.html
Obama Knows 9/11 Was Linked to Saudi Arabia - but It Has Oil
By Robert Fisk, The Independent
20 April 16
Saudi Arabia's million barrel a day output, plus its strategic location in
the Middle East, means the West must pay obeisance to the regional
head-choppers
oor old Barack. Off he goes to Riyadh to talk to his so-called ally, Saudi
Arabia. The Sunni Wahhabi kingdom long ago run out of patience with the US
president, who befriended Shiite Iran and who failed to destroy the Alawite
(read: Shiite) regime in Syria. So why is Obama even bothering coming to
the
Gulf? Does he have any friends left among the kings, emirs and princes of
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates and Oman?
Obama won't be entering the Saudi lions' den. The Saudis were never as
brave
as lions - which is why they let the decidedly unprincely Osama bin Laden
lead the Arab legion in Afghanistan - but the little cubs now trying to run
the country are very angry.
The ambitious, ruthless deputy crown prince and defence minister, Mohamed
bin Salman, launched the kingdom's crazed war against the Houthi rebels in
Yemen last year, convinced (without evidence) that Iran was arming them.
The
young Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubair - brilliant former Washington
ambassador, a man with a silken, dangerously eloquent tongue - has no
hesitation in denouncing Western weakness.
And, according to the New York Times, the Saudis have even threatened to
sell billions of dollars of their US assets if Congress passes a bill
allowing the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for
the crimes against humanity of 9/11.
And that, indeed, is the foundation of the US-Saudi mess right now. Of the
19 hijackers involved in 9/11, 15 were Saudis, a fact diplomatically
ignored
in the years immediately following the attacks. The Saudis bankrolled the
Taliban for many years.
The Americans believe - rightly - that Isis itself today receives much
support from within Saudi Arabia, though they haven't gone quite so far as
to say the government is behind this. Saudi Arabia, in other words, is
regarded in Washington as a very dodgy nation to be an ally.
But Obama's got to pretend to King Salman (the crown prince's Dad) that the
US still stands four-square behind the kingdom's security and sovereignty -
he can hardly say he's going to support Saudi 'democracy' for obvious
reasons - and it's clear that the country's massive oil reserves, its
million barrels a day output, strategic location and control of Sunni
Muslim
finances, means that the West has got to go on paying obeisance to all the
regional head-choppers.
Be sure that when King Salman dies (and may he live for many years), David
Cameron will once more lower the Union flag in mourning as he did for his
predecessor.
The real problem is that - after years of fantasy in which, against all the
evidence, the Americans persuaded themselves that the Saudis were a 'force
for moderation' in the Middle East - the Obama administration has decided
that Shiite Iran and the huge influence it exerts over the Shiite
governments of Iraq and Syria (and over the Shiite Hizballah in Lebanon) is
a better bet than the Sunni Salafists of Arabia. Hence the nuclear deal
with
Tehran's new leaders, the end of sanctions against Iran and the
slowly-dawning realisation among Sunnis that Washington is going to
tolerate
the continuation of Bashar al-Assad's rule in Damascus.
Iran may, as it was under the Shah, become the policeman of the Gulf. The
Saudis will have to share power with them. The US wants no more "free
riders" (as Obama snottily described the Saudis) supporting Isis.
The Obama line, which will be peddled heavily this week, is that diplomacy
rather than war must resolve the Sunni-Shia conflict; that America is not
going to embark on any more military adventures in the Middle East (nor,
one
suspects, give much more support to Crown Prince Mohamed's adventure in
Yemen).
It would be good to know what the censored 28 pages of the official US 9/11
report said about the Saudis. Maybe Obama will mention that in Riyadh? Any
more talk of withdrawing billions of US assets might just persuade the
Americans to open the book and let us take a peek into those secrets.
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