bellisarius
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Everyone's all a flutter over the probable murder of the journalist in the Saudi consulate in Turkey with many calling for serious sanctions. I'm thinking that any sanctions that might be levied are going to fall into the category of 'token.' Here's why.
Saudi Arabia, along with Israel, are our 'proxies' in the lukewarm war with Iran. While many argue that the difference between the two is almost indistinguishable the fact is that the Saudi's are the lesser evil. We have enjoyed a long business relationship with the Saudi's having lived up to our contractual commitments and are respected for that. And the Saudi leadership aren't the fire breathing ultra-Islamist's that the Mullahs are. The fact that they are working behind the scenes with the Israeli's holds out the hope for more regional stability. Based on the regional politics and our involvement in same we don't want to go shitting in their mess kit. There is more at stake than the life of one journalist.
The Saudi's have an internal problem with the Wahab's. Saudi Arabia has always been ruled by a partnership. The Saudi royal family dealing with the secular while the Wahab's kept the masses under control with the divine. With the Saudi's trying to modernize a conflict between themselves and the Wahab's began to erupt raising the specter of a civil war within the kingdom. And that would be bad for everyone, not just the US.
I suspect, and this is just speculation, that the entire ISIS thing was a blessing in disguise for both the US and the Saudi's. A little side deal as it were. We may have made a little deal with the Saudi's that amounts to, "Hey, you get your Mullah's to stir up your home grown jihadist's and send them off to Iraq/Syria and we'll kill them for you." A win-win for both of us. The jihadist's left the kingdom to be martyr's, and coincidentally recruited a lot of like minded murder's out of the western nations and we bombed the shit out of them. Whether that was a plan or not makes no difference, the results were/are the same.
The Saudi's have always dealt ruthlessly with any opposition to the royal family. This particular incident isn't as if they are a liberal Western nation that all of a sudden went rogue. And quite frankly their humanitarian abuses are mild when compared to many other nations on this planet. The issue here is that the victim was a journalist which always (almost anyway) gets the press's panties in a wad. The press really does believe themselves to be a race separate from, and superior to, us mere mortals hence the outrage.
I neither condone nor excuse the behavior of the Saud's in this instance, merely pointing out that there is a much bigger geopolitical game being played with considerably higher stakes that can have far reaching long term effects. So you might want to think a little more deeply into the matter before you become overly emotionally invested in righteous indignation.
Saudi Arabia, along with Israel, are our 'proxies' in the lukewarm war with Iran. While many argue that the difference between the two is almost indistinguishable the fact is that the Saudi's are the lesser evil. We have enjoyed a long business relationship with the Saudi's having lived up to our contractual commitments and are respected for that. And the Saudi leadership aren't the fire breathing ultra-Islamist's that the Mullahs are. The fact that they are working behind the scenes with the Israeli's holds out the hope for more regional stability. Based on the regional politics and our involvement in same we don't want to go shitting in their mess kit. There is more at stake than the life of one journalist.
The Saudi's have an internal problem with the Wahab's. Saudi Arabia has always been ruled by a partnership. The Saudi royal family dealing with the secular while the Wahab's kept the masses under control with the divine. With the Saudi's trying to modernize a conflict between themselves and the Wahab's began to erupt raising the specter of a civil war within the kingdom. And that would be bad for everyone, not just the US.
I suspect, and this is just speculation, that the entire ISIS thing was a blessing in disguise for both the US and the Saudi's. A little side deal as it were. We may have made a little deal with the Saudi's that amounts to, "Hey, you get your Mullah's to stir up your home grown jihadist's and send them off to Iraq/Syria and we'll kill them for you." A win-win for both of us. The jihadist's left the kingdom to be martyr's, and coincidentally recruited a lot of like minded murder's out of the western nations and we bombed the shit out of them. Whether that was a plan or not makes no difference, the results were/are the same.
The Saudi's have always dealt ruthlessly with any opposition to the royal family. This particular incident isn't as if they are a liberal Western nation that all of a sudden went rogue. And quite frankly their humanitarian abuses are mild when compared to many other nations on this planet. The issue here is that the victim was a journalist which always (almost anyway) gets the press's panties in a wad. The press really does believe themselves to be a race separate from, and superior to, us mere mortals hence the outrage.
I neither condone nor excuse the behavior of the Saud's in this instance, merely pointing out that there is a much bigger geopolitical game being played with considerably higher stakes that can have far reaching long term effects. So you might want to think a little more deeply into the matter before you become overly emotionally invested in righteous indignation.
