And We Defend These People?

[Birds Away]

Not too mention the boom in drilling and our own domestic oil production would create jobs that can't get outsourced.

If they can't move the jobs overseas they simply move the people here.

 

[femurphy77]

Another piece of evidence for the "And We Defend These People" discussion. The bad thing is that these atrocities are being perpetrated by our "allies" in this fight!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/w...-ignore-afghan-allies-abuse-of-boys.html?_r=2

Their "culture" and their "values" are so counter to our own. . . .WHY do we continue to expend resources on these "people"?

 

[Leadeye]

Money talks in dc, if the Saudis want something they just buy it. Leadership will stand in line or sit up and bark as long as they are writing checks. The morality or ideology, dem or rep really doesn't matter when cash in the Saudi scale starts talking.

 

[jgreiner]

They're almost quite literally no better than IS in what they do to people they don't like. They, like their sunni IS brethren are savages that should be isolated. Screw them and their oil. Let them eat it.

Saudi Arabia: Juvenile prisoner faces 'death by crucifixion' after appeal is dismissed

Did you see the story on Drudge this morning about our soldiers being told to ignore the abuse of young boys, by the Afghan soldiers?

Story here

 

[srad]

And in other news... Saudi Ambassador was just appointed as Head of the UN Human Rights Council.
Saudi Arabia appointed to chair UN Human Rights Council

 

[steveh_131]

Did you see the story on Drudge this morning about our soldiers being told to ignore the abuse of young boys, by the Afghan soldiers?

I came across this earlier today. Made me sick to my stomach.

KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”

I don't even know what to say.

 

[Jludo]

And this is exactly why the Dems doing all they possibly can to stand in the way of domestic oil production (fracking, etc.) and getting oil from our very good neighbor of Canada via the Keystone XL Pipeline is so totally ridiculous and indefensible.

Dems don't want fracking and Keystone because they are fans of the Saudi Regime and want us importing middle eastern oil?

 

[Drail]

The human race should have wiped Islam off of this planet 1000 years ago. It is NOT a "religion". It is a disease.

 

[Jludo]

The human race should have wiped Islam off of this planet 1000 years ago. It is NOT a "religion". It is a disease.

Calm down there Goebbels

 

[oldpink]

Dems don't want fracking and Keystone because they are fans of the Saudi Regime and want us importing middle eastern oil?

Intentions don't matter; results do.
Own this one, bub.

 

[mrjarrell]

Dems don't want fracking and Keystone because they are fans of the Saudi Regime and want us importing middle eastern oil?

The oil is insignificant where the US is concerned. The amounts we get from the middle east are minuscule. Most of their oil goes other places. We get the majority of our foreign oil from Mexico and Canada. The oil we're protecting in the ME is other peoples oil. He's refusing to accept the fact that republicans are just as deep in bed with the Saudi's as any democrat.

 

[jamil]

The oil is insignificant where the US is concerned. The amounts we get from the middle east are minuscule. Most of their oil goes other places. We get the majority of our foreign oil from Mexico and Canada. The oil we're protecting in the ME is other peoples oil. He's refusing to accept the fact that republicans are just as deep in bed with the Saudi's as any democrat.

Two words: Halli burton.

 

[churchmouse]

Dems don't want fracking and Keystone because they are fans of the Saudi Regime and want us importing middle eastern oil?

Follow the money.....just follow it.

 

[churchmouse]

The oil is insignificant where the US is concerned. The amounts we get from the middle east are minuscule. Most of their oil goes other places. We get the majority of our foreign oil from Mexico and Canada. The oil we're protecting in the ME is other peoples oil. He's refusing to accept the fact that republicans are just as deep in bed with the Saudi's as any democrat.

They are all in line for this....all of them regardless of affiliations.

 

[mrjarrell]

Two words: Halli burton.

No doubt about it.

 

[IndyDave1776]

They are all in line for this....all of them regardless of affiliations.

Exactly. And for those who do the buying, it is not an us vs. them ideological battle, but rather the same thing as the way most of us don't have a problem buying two or three different vehicles which are all different brands.

Two words: Halli burton.

Yes, funny how they were on the edge of bankruptcy when that war started and now they have forgotten what the word means.

 

[Jludo]

Two words: Halli burton.

Wish Smedley Butler was still around to sit across from Cheney in some of these interviews.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

In geopolitics, as in other things, sometimes the enemy of our enemy has to be our friend.

We say that, but the wise man knows that: "the enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy. Nothing more, nothing less. I can deal with the enemy of my enemy for short-term or long-term gain, but I must never forget that it is just the enemy of my enemy, not necessarily my friend."

 

[MisterChester]

Exactly. And for those who do the buying, it is not an us vs. them ideological battle, but rather the same thing as the way most of us don't have a problem buying two or three different vehicles which are all different brands.



Yes, funny how they were on the edge of bankruptcy when that war started and now they have forgotten what the word means.

Former executive turned Vice-President hands over ridiculously expensive no-bid contracts to his former company? That's a bad movie plot.

 

[jamil]

Wish Smedley Butler was still around to sit across from Cheney in some of these interviews.

If he were, Cheney would just invite him duck hunting first.