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2015-12-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

Saudi Arabia - an ISIS that has made it. Why claims of *fighting terrorism* are bogus without discussing the cultural problem

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Posted by anon1 2015-12-07 08:28|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Shouldn't this be in opinion? Not that I don't agree completely. As the old-timers here know, I've said "Real WOT would start with extermination of the Saudi 'Royal Family'" on several occasions.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-07 08:34|| 2015-12-07 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Real WOT would start with ~~extermination~~ examination of the Saudi 'Royal Family'

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-07 09:49|| 2015-12-07 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Shouldn't this be in opinion?

Since it was published in the New York Times opinion section, yes. And so I have moved it there.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-07 09:55|| 2015-12-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The time for examination is long past.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-07 10:04|| 2015-12-07 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone should let slip that Mecca is on a Russian target list. Let them consider that fact for awhile in their fevered imagination.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-12-07 15:17|| 2015-12-07 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 No mention of Sunni or Salafist.

Just the usual denial of the fact this is a religious war. To characterize it as 'terrorism' completely misses the point.

Posted by phil_b 2015-12-07 16:48|| 2015-12-07 16:48|| Front Page Top

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