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Showing Original Post only (View all)Help me out understand this, DU! Why are we still allies with Saudi Arabia?? [View all]
Considering their horible laws and persecution of minorities and of most basic human rights, why are they our allies?
Oil? Is that all it takes for us to consider such a country an ally?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I can't figure it out for the life of me.
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Help me out understand this, DU! Why are we still allies with Saudi Arabia?? [View all]
darkangel218
Nov 2015
OP
They still don't get a pass from me. Maybe it's the 16 yo girls they hang on the public boulevards
trillion
Nov 2015
#34
Looks like the HuffPost writer has a long history of putting out Pro-Iranian propaganda...
951-Riverside
Nov 2015
#54
having spent more than 20 years there - I will say this - As bad as the royal family is - and they
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2015
#17
most likely the matawa - the "religious police" would be the only cohesive group who could take
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2015
#19
allies is probably not the best word - machiavellian symbiotic relationship is more the situation
Douglas Carpenter
Nov 2015
#21
It's a hell of a lot more stable now than it would be with a power vacuum. n/t
A HERETIC I AM
Nov 2015
#29
Daesh has carved out a nation sized territory made up of parts of actual nations. Not stable.
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#50
Money. and yes, they are about to behead, crucify, and hang upside down, teenagers who protested
trillion
Nov 2015
#33
Because Saudi Arabia competes with Iran for political dominance in the Middle East
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2015
#62