From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 18:09:39 MDT
SAUDI ARABIA: AMERICA'S ENEMY
by Srdja Trifkovic
America's supposedly reliable and staunch ally in the Middle East, Saudi
Arabia, finally came under long-overdue media scrutiny in recent days.
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld may huff and puff over a leaked briefing at
the Pentagon in late July that pointed at the desert kingdom as one of
the main sources of Islamic militancy and terrorism throughout the
world, but whoever perpetrated the leak did a huge favor to our
country's security (and the old boy knows it, thank God, or else he
would have disavowed the substance of the leak itself). Saudi Arabia, in
the words of a Rand Corporation international security analyst who
provided the leaked briefing, is "active at every level of the terror
chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from
ideologist to cheerleader . . . Saudi Arabia supports our enemies and
attacks our allies."
Dixit; Islam has global and lethal consequences, however obscure and
coarse its origins. But the aptly named "terror chain" of radical Islam
is not a recent trend, and it is not a fringe phenomenon that has
somehow veered away from the supposed model of Muslim "peace and
tolerance." No: Saudi Arabia, the most genuinely Muslim country in the
world, is NOT based on a different set of religious, legal, and
political assumptions from mainstream Islam; but to understand the
pernicious role of Saudi Arabia in the ongoing Middle Eastern crisis,
and to grasp the magnitude of its threat to America's values,
institutions, and security, we should start with the early history of
that strange and unpleasant place.
For the rest of this article, see
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsST080902.html
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