Anti-Saudites

I don't ususally watch Dan Abrams on MSNBC, a tabloid show that concentrates on Britney Spears and Aruba, etc. But tonight he was going on and on about the evil of Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of "foreign fighters" in Iraq (a category that does not include Americans) are Saudis. The hint is that the Saudi government, long a satellite of the US, sent them, which is obviously nuts. Then we heard about the horrific case of a young woman who may be jailed and even flogged for being out with an unrelated male when she was gang raped. How this compares to the US, where hundreds of thousands are caged and gang raped for smoking pot and similar non-crimes, lawyer Abrams did not say. Then he brought on Clifford May, one of the real neocon haters, to demonize the Saudis.

Of course, anyone going on and on about the real or alleged evils of foreign countries is an enemy of freedom, seeking to justify war and the empire. How about fixing the beam in our own national eye before we blab on about the splinters in others', let alone bomb and invade them? Of course not. That would be "isolationism." Link