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| Fahd obit (Guardian) | |
| 2005-08-02 | |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 He lies in state, having shot his wad. Aparently right down the throat of al-Guardian. |
| Posted by: Scott R 2005-08-02 13:10 |
| #4 I call BS. Even in the movie "Lawrence of Arabia", Lawrence is meeting with ol' King Faisal in the tent, where TE wants to talk politix and Faisal wants to know how many guns he will get and how big they will be. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-08-02 10:52 |
| #3 We've seen the last of Good King Fahd He lies in state, having shot his wad. |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-08-02 10:11 |
| #2 oops..I should preview! oh well. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-02 07:45 |
| #1 pshaw, no matter how well written and no matter how many facts they get right, I don't like reading when they always throw in stuff that is petty or inaccurate with the facts. It's like eating yummy cake that has little patches of sand inside. Now here was Fahd heaping yet more dazzling new hardware on his armed forces, in which, for internal political reasons, he must have had less confidence than ever. It was not so much fear of another Saddam that prompted him, it was the princes' greed for commissions and the desperate need of western arms manufacturers to sell their products. Guardian then goes on to say that increase in military spending and wild spending by the princes fuels resentment...all fair enough...but then we finally get around to blaming what the Guardian staff religiously believes is responsible for all the world's ills..the true To get this in everything they ever write is almost like a freaking disclaimer on a pack of cigarettes...so here we go.... The way the west, especially the US, treated the world's largest oil exporter as a milch cow for its weapons, and other high-priced goods and services, was a source of growing resentment too. So was Fahd's acquiescence in it. That western-Saudi bargain he had struck in the 1970s seemed a thoroughly one-sided one now. But the greater the resentment, the more dependent, in the end, he became on the US as his ultimate protector against enemies within and without. And thenthey didn't even get the date of the King's death right - as any rantburger would know. Fahd bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, born 1921; died August 1 2005. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-08-02 07:42 |