Post #114132 by Satan's Sin on Mon, Sep 13, 2004 8:29 AM

I think Osama et. al. should be hunted down like dogs, but this thing did not happen because they are boogeymen who envy us our goodness.

Put the shoe on the other foot. Imagine Saudi Arabia as the most powerful, dynamic country in the world. Imagine the U.S. as a corrupt monarchy with only one industry (oil exports) and no future for our young men and women, unless they happen to be related to the royal family.

Imagine a gigantic Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force Base in the middle of Kansas -- for our "regional security." Imagine being able to look out from a skyscraper in New York or Los Angeles and see cruising just offshore a Saudi Arabian Carrier Battle Group -- again, for our "regional security." A Carrier Battle Group is the most potent weapons systems ever invented, quite capable of going anywhere in the world and destroying entire cities, if not countries. No other country in the world has even one Carrier Battle Group. But the Saudis have twelve. Not that there's a war on. Not that anybody's threatening the Saudis. But here they are -- in international waters, of course, where they have every right to be -- conducting flight operations within sight of L.A. or N.Y. And the Saudis and the U.S. royal family keep telling us that everything is "cool."

Can anyone imagine a U.S. citizen going a little bonkers over this situation ... ?

Osama is wrong. Osama -- or whoever replaces him -- will never "win." But this thing did not happen in a vaccum.