[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Dumb and dumber

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Dumb and dumber
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1185898585.shtml


   Via the AP: [1]Rice, Gates show support for Arab allies

     Rice and Gates were making a rare joint show of diplomatic force
     during two days of meetings with Arab allies â part of an 11th-hour
     effort to rally diplomatic and practical help for the U.S.-backed
     Shiite-led government in Baghdad. The tour also opens talks on a
     proposed U.S. arms package for Arab states worth more than $20
     billion.

     Arab money and diplomatic support has lagged behind Europe's, and
     some of Iraq's neighbors quietly tolerate, or may secretly support,
     attacks inside Iraq. Some of the violence targets U.S. forces and
     some of it Shiite militias and neighborhoods.

   Just a simple question. We know that Iraq's Sunni neighbors, like
   Saudi Arabia, quietly tolerate and/or support, attacks against Shiites
   and US force in Iraq, why are we calling them allies? They are, in
   every legal and diplomatic sense, our enemies.

   So, why are we giving them billions of dollars and military hardware?
   Some of our actions can be blamed on Saudi bribes, but this time,
   we're giving them the money! We're begging and bribing our enemies and
   expecting absolutely nothing in return from them.

   This is a stupidity that is so immensely profound, words and even
   expletives can't begin to describe it - our foreign policy is a black
   hole of idiocy, a dense, weighty, mindless force of nature through
   which no light or reason will ever pass.

References

   1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_mideast