Saudi Arabia - the Great Satan?

One of the complaints against Bush has been that he should have attacked Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq. The basis of the complaint is valid. Almost all the hijackers were Saudi. The Saudis are the source of Wahabbism, the radical arm of Muslim that is the source of the philosophy that feeds terrorism - the belief that "pure" Islam is the true religion and all others are infidels worthy of death if they do not convert. Saudi money props up terrorism and promotes Wahabbism around the world.

The problem is that it's naive to think that we could invade Saudi Arabia and change its government. It will take other methods to change Saudi Arabia, but change it we must. Terrorism will not be defeated until Wahabbism is consigned to the dustbin of history.

You need only read the writings of Saudis to understand the depth of the problem. The Saudi's official government news predicts that the US will invade Pakistan. This is typical of the kind of conspiracy thinking that is the norm in Saudi Arabia.

"There is no doubt that the U.S. is the biggest enemy of Islam and the Muslims. It utilized Pakistan to bring down the former USSR, helped Pakistan form the Taliban and help the Taliban to come to power in Afghanistan. But when Afghanistan refused to allow passage of an oil pipeline it declared the Taleban as terrorists and, after 9/ll, attacked Afghanistan.

"After the destruction of Afghanistan, it sought the help of Pakistan through intimidation. Now it is not only trying to destabilize Pakistan but is also bent on dividing it. This is the worst example of friendship extended by the U.S., as Secretary of State Collin Powell recently avowed that Pakistan is the U.S. biggest and trusted ally outside NATO.

"The bomb blast in Pakistan and the sectarian fighting between the Sunnis and the Shiites show that the U.S. has started implementing its program.

You really can't make this stuff up - well, unless you're Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore...

Another article explores the supposed connections between the Bush family and the Nazis. (Seriously! We're both the biggest supporters in the world of the evil Jews and at the same time we cooperated with the jew-hating Nazis. I told you you couldn't make this stuff up.)

"Therefore, either these documents were archived during the terms of [Bush] the father and [George W. Bush] so they could be used as a means of blackmailing the two presidents into continuing to serve Israel, or the time has now come to publicize these facts, if they are indeed true. That is to say, perhaps Bush Jr. has played all his cards and he has no choice left but to leave the White House, with [John] Kerry as his successor, about whom it has been said that he has Jewish roots, like [Madeleine] Albright, the former Secretary of State who didn't make public her religious identity until several years after [assuming office].

"The delicate question is whether Israel cooperated with the ruling Bush family while knowing these secrets, according to the principle of whoever does you excellent service is your ally, even if in the past he had [ties] with the Nazis? Or perhaps this information is inaccurate or fictitious, and its publication has come at a time when the investigators don't have time to conduct a thorough investigation and to defend Bush, since the elections are fast approaching. If we assume that the accusation is true, it is probable that elements in the service of Israel and [acting] in conjunction with it felt which way the wind was blowing in anticipation of the elections, and [concluded] that Kerry was better suited to the Israeli positions."

Remember - this is the official Saudi government daily, not some grocery story rag like the Enquirer.

Can you imagine the US government making press releases like this? The administration would be laughed out of the White House. Yet in Saudi Arabia this passes for intelligent analysis.

Sooner or later this will have to change. How that change will come about is a question that will vex experts far more knowledgeable than I.