Just why would Americans need to be in Saudi Arabia again? To protect them just like Kuwait was protected? To secure cheap oil supplies? Why exactly am I meant to give you guys sympathy, again?
Well, in the future it might be handy to have a presence in the region, considering that Germany seems to be on fairly good terms with its neighbors, so those bases are looking a little outmoded. I grant you, Spain could become aggressive and decide to stamp out Andorra once and for all, but I think the UN will prevent that from happening.
Far as I can tell, the Saudi government, who rule a nation that's very much thrilled with the idea of infidel Americans on their soil, asked us to be there, for protection, because the nation directly to the north of it was attacking two of its neighbors, to say nothing of an ethnic minority in the north, and perhaps its aggression wasn't limited to those 3 targets. Kuwait had fallen by the time the Saudis invited us over.
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Re: As long as we're getting partisan about this...
Date: 2007-07-04 01:31 pm (UTC)Re: As long as we're getting partisan about this...
Date: 2007-07-06 11:19 pm (UTC)Far as I can tell, the Saudi government, who rule a nation that's very much thrilled with the idea of infidel Americans on their soil, asked us to be there, for protection, because the nation directly to the north of it was attacking two of its neighbors, to say nothing of an ethnic minority in the north, and perhaps its aggression wasn't limited to those 3 targets. Kuwait had fallen by the time the Saudis invited us over.