From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 22:22:36 MDT
Are you aware that the source of the "Chronicles" articles is
the Rockford Institute which is fundamentally a Christian fundie
or near-fundie "think tank"? Perhaps we should take these
articles with more than a few grains of salt.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/About.htm
- samantha
Technotranscendence wrote:
> 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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