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Originally posted by legalspeed
I hear ya bro...
Yes, it seems Saudi Arabia did not think their army was strong enough to evict Iraq.
I do not believe this is what most of the muslim hatered is about, more so; about the crusades and religious wars. I think Isreal is just the latest excuse, as they poured over the borders and Isreal repelled them.
I've often wondered why we can't ring a giant bell and say that's it, no more border changes. |
Wow, well this is a whole other angle that I'd never really heard of before. I read up on it a bit and there's a lot of agreement about what you said, that OBL just used U.S. ties to Israel to drum up support from Muslims who were sympathetic to the palestinian cause, and that his real motivations for attacking was US military presence in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 attacks on Iraq. And that like you said, OBL wanted to direct an attack on Iraq by himself and was rejected by the Saudis.
That just really confuses the fuck out of me right there. Why would OBL want to attack Iraq? How could he justify an attack on the US over us doing what he wanted to do in the first place? Every time I think I'm starting to make a little bit of sense of the middle east, seems like I read something new and I'm back to square one. I just don't get it
