One of these days, they might get dragged kicking and screaming forward into the 14th century…
You’re funny.
I’m glad you’re here, because this seems as good a place as any to ask: what is your view on the rights of women in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states?
You’ve lived and worked in the ME for 7 1/2 years and don’t realize how ignorant the term “full sharia law” is?
The US is backing Islamist rebels? That’s news to me, as they had been explicitly supporting non-Islamist groups like the Free Syrian Army.
Cite?
Calling it “Wahabbist law” is more accurate; it’s not some purer form of Islam, it’s a radical offshoot.
You know how Catholics are the only group that practices “Full Christianity”?
Regardless of how you feel about this, the United States is not in a position to dictate the national laws of every other nation on Earth. Period.
I would be extremely surprised if the US has a greater number of rapes than Saudi Arabia, even given the difference in population. I would be not at all surprised to learn that Saudi Arabia has fewer prosecutions or convictions for rape, or even a lower rate of such.
Rape is a problem everywhere in the world. The US attempts to solve that problem by throwing the rapists in jail whenever we catch them (an approach which admittedly has not been entirely successful, for a variety of reasons). Saudi Arabia attempts to solve the problem by punishing anyone who gets raped, and pretending that rape doesn’t exist. Do you really expect that that works any better?
Yes, so they’ll be closer to joining you in the 19th.
I don’t think he’s that advanced.
Well, I was willing to give him the American Revolution, but he seems divided on slavery.
This is fascinating. So you’re saying that the Bush administration assumed that the US was somehow going to take complete control of the Iraqi oil industry and seize all industry production and revenues, but suddenly found they couldn’t, for some unknown reason? What stopped them?
The U.S. government and military got a lot of things wrong about Iraq in 2003.
Yes, they did. My question was directed to Der Trihs, but feel free to answer for him if you want. So you’re saying that the Bush administration assumed that the US was somehow going to take complete control of the Iraqi oil industry and seize all industry production and revenues, but suddenly found they couldn’t, for some unknown reason? What stopped them?
She does have some hot ankles.
Reality?
Not a very persuasive list. Anwar Sadat and Yasser Arafat were political figures who won the Peace Prize for their efforts to curtail the constant warmongering in the region. Ahmed Zewail (as RickJay pointed out) was an Egyptian-born American, and in fact at the time he won the Nobel he had been on the faculty of Caltech for 23 years.
I know little of Naguib Mahfouz but I assume he was a deserving winner for Literature. But here are some interesting illustrative facts from Wikipedia:
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[li]he was the only Arab writer to ever have won the award[/li][li]his books were banned in many Arab countries until after he won the Nobel Prize[/li][li]Mahfouz was on an Islamic fundamentalist “death list”[/li][li]Mahfouz was given police protection, but in 1994 an Islamic extremist succeeded in attacking the 82-year-old novelist by stabbing him in the neck outside his Cairo home[/li][/ul]
There seems to be a certain lack of enlightenment in the region.
And it’s all her fault for how they affect you. Are you not driven to lust by the mere glimpse of those ankles? Do they not fill you with impure thoughts? Are you driven to take her and have your way with her right on the street? In opposition to all the laws you believe in?
Damn right she should be covered! It’s not your fault, you know! She MADE you have these thoughts.
America and Saudi Arabia are in a twisted codependent relationship. Don’t see it getting better anytime soon. What’s a couple terrorist attacks between friends?
As for the Iraq invasion and occupation, it’s interesting how mainstream opinion has drifted over the years. Though Bush officials said the war could be paid for with oil revenue, America never intended to take it as a spoil of war (no blood for oil!). Using Iraq as a beachhead for globalist free market policies or any reference to PNAC is called a CT nowadays. GWB wanting revenge on Saddam for trying to kill his father is considered too petty for such a grand enterprise. It wasn’t for terrorists or WMDs. About the most people will say is the admin naively wanted to democratize Iraq and the locals just weren’t ready. How flattering.
You see something similar in discussions about why America is so interested in Syria.
Seems like a fairer solution would be to curtail the freedom of the class of people actually doing the abducting, raping, and murdering.
I think most of us already know that.