At 12:00 PM 4/12/02 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>Well, lets assume that Saudi Arabia was a poor country dependant on us
>instead of a wealthy country that holds 40%+ of the known oil reserve. Do
>you think we would show such understanding of the fact that most of the
>terrorist who attacked on 9-11 were Saudi nationals or of the fact that they
>are supporting the Palestinian terrorism?
I would argue that it would, just in the same way that Pakistan managed to
completely derail the several years of building US-India ties due to
Pakistan' strategic location.
I think that the fact that Saudi Arabia has a state-of-the-art air force
base, and is so strategically located next to Iraq, the next major
battlefield in this war, would make it a very key compononet of our foreign
policy.
JDG
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"We fight against poverty because faith requires it and
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