Friends Like These

The United States of America has a relationship of long-standing with Saudi Arabia. No churches and certainly no synagogues exist there. The most primitive and barbaric punishments are practiced by Saudi authorities including but not limited to the amputation of hands, beheading by sword, and crucifixion (yes- like Roman times). Saudi Arabia practices and promotes the most virulent and intolerant strain of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, funding the establishment and preaching of it in mosques worldwide. The genesis of the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda is the Wahhab vision of the Islamic faith. Fifteen of the nineteen September 11, 2001 hijackers were Saudi and two others were not Saudi-born but were pilots who had worked for Saudi Arabia's national airline. The Saudis are among the most misogynistic nations as well, denying women the right to vote or drive and even sending schoolgirls back into a burning building because they had not had time to put on their all-encompassing veils. Our Saudi "friends" have also enjoyed the benefits of their influential position in the OPEC cartel to artificially inflate the costs Americans sustain at the gas pump, but Saudi Arabia, who recently dispatched thugs to put down a "people's movement" revolt against the Sunni despots of Bahrain, remains America's close and trusted ally while Barack Hussein Obama kicks Israel's proverbial teeth down her throat. As I recall, none of the September 11 murder crew was Israeli. Since electing our President with the foreign-sounding name, the US has found herself with increasingly strange bedfellows.