Re: Is ANYONE dumber than conservatives?

From: Roger Dodger (rogerspark_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 15:52:42 -0700

fernbach2000@yahoo.com (2ndSight) wrote in message news:<99e8ce30.0408250645.60cd57c7@posting.google.com>...

> You're so smart that you applauded Ronald Reagan when
> he made US economic and military aid available to
> brave, religiously inspired "freedom fighters" in
> Afghanistan who - ta-da! -- have since magically
> transformed themselves into Al Qaeda.
>
> You conservatives are so AWESOMELY intelligent that
> in the mid-1980s, you thought it was great that
> the US government with Don Rumsfeld doing the diplomacy
> was extending diplomatic, financial and military help to Saddam
> Hussein.

Not to mention so smart as to extend all sorts of help to the
barbarous Saudi leadership, and to pretend they are a friend
and ally with a common cause. But for cheap oil, both the
Republicans and Democrats have been doing this for decades.

Most of the anti-American, anti-Western, anti-civilization
Islamic sentiment has its roots in Saudi Arabia. That
includes the Taliban and Al Qaeda. You can see that in
the visit by a Saudi prince to the WTC ruins in New York
where the lizard-eating prince* openly mocked the disaster,
and Bush was too gutless to put him in his place.

Perhaps the American leadership, in the 1970s and 1980s, can
be excused for believing that their Middle Eastern allies
of convenience would be as civilized as their Asian or Latin
American ones. After all, the Nicaraguan Contras, never
flown any kamikaze attacks against American buildings.

Some people can never understand gratitude.

It might have been better if the Western World (the League
of Civilized Nations, perhaps) siezed all the unpopulated
oil-producing regions of the Middle East during the Cold
War, and left the populated regions to the Russkies.
Let the commies and Koran-thumpers slaughter each others
while the civilized world stays neutral.

*
As an aside, notive that Saudi-land is full of kings and
princes, and we hear all about them, but never about the
queens, princesses, and ladies. They're too busy making
dinner and male heirs for their husbands. Queen Noor
doesn't count, she's from Jordan.

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