At 04:47 PM 4/3/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: >The Saudi's are reforming?
I posted examples of this recently in response to a message from Dr. Brin. Perhaps the most salient example was that 2003 is called by Saudi citizens "The Year of the Petition," due to the novelty of that democratic element being introduced. >You'd think after Saudi >nationals funded by oil sheiks from Saudi Arabia killed 3000 people in New >York that we'd have been a bit more insistent about reform than we have. >I think any other reasonable administration would have placed the blame >for 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of those who were actually responsible. By any other reasonable administration, I presume you mean a Clinton III, er.... Gore Administration. :-) I am curious as to what you mean by "plac[ing] the blame" on Saudi Arabia. You have previously argued that 9/11 created an open-and-shut case for the United States to attack those who attacked us. Can I infer from the above then that you believe that a Gore Administration would have attacked Saudi Arabia either before or after Taliban-occupied Afghanistan? If not, can I at least infer that your policy recommendation would be/would have been to attack Saudi Arabia following Saudi non-cooperation with our terror investigatiosn, non-crackdown on Wahabbi madrassas, and non-reform to a freely elected democracy? Thanks for clearing that up. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
