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A "Slight" Contradiction In Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy

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Those paying close attention to the geopolitical chess game unfolding in the Middle East might have noticed a rather amusing contradiction in Riyadh’s foreign policy stance of late. 

On the one hand, the Saudi-led coalition (which includes the UAE and Qatar) that’s carrying out near daily air strikes in Yemen in an all-out effort to wrest control of Sana’a from the Iran-backed Houthis has been accused of inflicting massive civilian casualties.

On the other hand, Saudi Arabia is already out condemning Moscow’s airstrikes in Syria because the Russian bombing raids have allegedly caused ... civilian casualties. 

Summed up in one tweet:

 

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Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:55 | 6616768 Looney
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Here’s an excerpt from the seasonally adjusted conversation between Putin and 0bama:

Putin: We’re going to the mattresses.

0bama: I like Tempur-Pedic® too.

Looney  ;-)

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:58 | 6616804 1000yrdstare
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Saudi Arabia....the land of, "Do as I say, not as I do"

 

 

oh and.....  FUCK YOU, INBREDS!!!

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:03 | 6616826 Beam Me Up Scotty
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USA.....the land of, "Do as I say, not as I do".

Fixed it for you.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:06 | 6616842 Baby Bladeface
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What Saudis pour is just parochial State Department propaganda of category B or C.

Expect inadequacy.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:29 | 6617324 HowdyDoody
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"Saudi Arabia demands end to Russian airstrikes in Sria, Us Is confused"

These acronyms are getting confusing. There was ISIL, then there was IsIs, now there is UsIs. It's madness, pure madness.

 

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:40 | 6617386 Joe A
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Madness indeed. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:37 | 6617340 strannick
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Fuck Saudi Arabia, and the clicque of Congress that enables their bullshit country. Andrew Jackson would have chased them out of the Capital with his horse whip, then renouced and Saudi aid, and sat back and watched with the rest of the world while these disgusting medieval men were overrun by the peolple.

The present Congress would have funded King George to wipe out the Founding Fathers.

If America would just be America, like Pope Francis and Ron Paul said, the world would be a better place.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:06 | 6616844 froze25
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ehh, it applies to both and most others.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:08 | 6616857 1000yrdstare
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USA.....the land of, "Do as I say, not as I do".

Fixed it for you

 

I got a feelin the USA does what it is told to do...by some who shall not be named... 

(hint: it's not the US people)

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:26 | 6616869 Sudden Debt
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The difference is that in Saudi Arabia, for talking like you just did, you would be arrested, butfucked by 50 randon Saudi's because you're a infidel and then be crucified.

In the US.... you would be butfucked by 50 randon police officers who where convinced you tried to kill them because you aren't a cop and then you would be thrown in jail under the patriot act for the rest of your life.

 

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:04 | 6616835 So Close
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Can anyone not see Obama getting a huge black eye no matter what happens?  He does nothing... he is a pusyy... he engages he is a warmonger.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:06 | 6616841 SoilMyselfRotten
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And how would one know?

 

Whoops can't keep down that inner rayciss in me

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:58 | 6617126 ShorTed
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Who gives a shit.  USA turned the mess in the middles east into a complete clusterfuck!  Fuck Obozo, Fuck Bush, Clinton, Biden, Cheney and all the rest of 'em.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:04 | 6616836 SoilMyselfRotten
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Nothing qualifies you to head a panel on human rights more than bombing a wedding party

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:28 | 6616951 semperfi
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that should bag them the Nobel Peace Prize also

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:38 | 6617015 TimmyB
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How about funding ISIS, al Qeada, and every other Sunni extremist group slaughtering people everywhere? Well, that along with torturing, beheading and crucifying your own citizens. That shit screams "human rights champion."

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:49 | 6617085 FreeMoney
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Uh....i think that applies to the USSA timmy....

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:41 | 6617392 WarPony
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don't forget a shout out for the Saudi-backed 911 "hijackers"

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:11 | 6616878 Fester
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Doesn't Syria have some twin towers that need taken out?

 

How ironic it would be if Iran served justice to Saudi Arabia

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:57 | 6616797 pods
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Saudi Arabia can't demand shit anymore.  Everyone else is starting to realize this.

When answer comes back to "Who runs Bartertown," Saudi Arabia is going to be unpleasantly surprised.

pods

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:00 | 6616814 KnuckleDragger-X
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They are used to running the game and don't understand that the rules are changing.....

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:05 | 6616840 The Indelicate ...
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Pods, I hope wiser heads prevail. I don't want to see any more people killed for all the wrong reasons.

That said, I hope the Russians land on Saudis Shia coast and start handing out weapons and explosives and do the same in Yemen.

And I also hope the Chinese engage as fully as they should.

There's time to reverse this thing, but it calls for expunging a lot of people from the US deep state.

And we both know "who" most {not all} of them are and why it is "politically impossible."

Which is why a political solution is unlikely....

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:07 | 6616847 froze25
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That my man, is why they want our guns.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:06 | 6617177 brodix
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They will wait until our banking system is imploded and we are thus distracted.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:57 | 6616800 The Indelicate ...
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Israel bombing ambulance with civilians nearby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2sGCdAKtA0

Does Jewish Law Justify Killing Civilians?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/10/does-jewish-law-justify-killing-civilians/

How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book's Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video)

http://www.alternet.org/story/148016/how_to_kill_goyim_and_influence_peo...'s_shocking_religious_defense_of_killing_non-jews_%28with_video%29

I'm confused as to when killing civilians deliberately is "good" and when its terrorism.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:01 | 6616818 1000yrdstare
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Does Jewish Law Justify Killing Civilians?

 

 

Talmudic Jewish laws,... yes

you know, the Talmud, that some people think does not exist, or was fabricated by anti-semites.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:08 | 6616855 froze25
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Just so I know what you are talking about do you have a link for a English translation of it?

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:12 | 6616882 froze25
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Nice a down vote for trying to educate myself.  I guess we are all jerks at heart. :) 

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:26 | 6616943 taoJones
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not to worry, i gave you an off-setting up-vote

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:09 | 6616864 The Indelicate ...
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Pretty amazing the mind-set that says pointing out violence/hate in the Koran is just fine

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

But somehow - pointing out the hate, xenophobia, and supremacism that is absolutely replete in Jewish religious texts is "hate".

Fuck.

That.

The Laws against Non-Jews - Israel Shahakhttp://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/shahak.html

Racist Israeli Rabbis
http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2014/02/14/402634-racist-israeli-rabbis/

Can you imagine if a Catholic bishop said this sort of thing? The coverage would be ceaseless.... but when **leading** Jewish rabbis and people in the fucking Israeli government say it - no coverage at all.

clearly, the Jesuit Space Lizards control the world.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:30 | 6616956 froze25
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Wow, I only read some of it but it is a seriously well thought out rules of "how to be racist" book.  If anyone ever applied this line of thinking over time the surrounding population would really not like them.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:35 | 6616996 froze25
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Sounds like the best thing to do is learn to speak Hebrew for all us non-Hebrew speaking people so that there is no longer a secret language.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:35 | 6616963 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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As Chomsky would say,

"It's only terrorism when they do it."

https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/does-hate-speech-go-both-...

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 13:58 | 6616802 jmc8888
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Immediately what I thought...oh yeah so they care about civilians in Syria but not Yemen.

One hand fund, arms, and trains, terrorists and kill them in a different country... while the other acts concerned to the media.

King Sal-qeadaman

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:32 | 6616984 froze25
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All the so called kingdoms in the middle east were setup by the British post WW1.  The Saudis are straight up sponsors of terror. 

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:10 | 6616811 The Indelicate ...
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http://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis_includes/countries_long/S...

A] Remind me why Qatar needs to run its pipeline through Syria?

B] My, what a nice cluster of targets you have, House of Saud.

Shit, if we were on the right side of this thing instead of being government by a consortium of Zionist and globalist pigs, I'd re-enlist bum leg and all.

- - -

America's Deep State: Foreign Agents, Lobbyists, Corporations, Military-Intel

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/05-08-2014/128217-deep_state-0/

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:12 | 6617209 . . . _ _ _ . . .
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A) because dollars

B) nice map of that cluster here:

https://atokenmanblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/are-the-bin-ladens-coming...

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:02 | 6616817 bamawatson
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but did this not occur prior to the announcement that michael vick; ron mexico; is under center for the steelers tonight ?

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:02 | 6616821 Son of Loki
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Wait until this whole shit storm expands into central europe, which it will now that isis has walked across the borders amongst the refugees.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:08 | 6616851 Pure Evil
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An attack against one NATO member is an attack against all NATO members.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:55 | 6617112 FreeMoney
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An attack against one NATO member is a good reason to start a war, expand the scope of government, establish one world currency and repudiate all prior debts.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:02 | 6616823 Doom and Dust
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Condemning civilian casualties is much like causing them - i.e. strategic bombing vs. strategic (moral) posturing. Bit naive to even point out the contradiction. But charmingly so I guess.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:04 | 6616829 pods
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Maybe Saudi Arabia thinks anyone doing their dirty work are civilians and only wedding attendees are considered terrorists?

#TweetThatBitchez

pods

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:47 | 6617422 WarPony
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if you had seen my marriage, anyone celebrating the wedding would have been considered a terrorist

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:04 | 6616837 EuroPox
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No no! It's all OK.  The wedding guests were only moderately killed.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:05 | 6616839 Dr. Engali
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The house of Saud needs to experience a few casulties.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:07 | 6616845 ToSoft4Truth
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The Saudi’s knock ‘em down, the Israelis collect the insurance checks. 

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:09 | 6616863 Hannibal
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FUCK the Saudi's.!

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:12 | 6616880 morph
Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:13 | 6616887 buzzsaw99
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the sauds are demanding russia stop bombing THEIR TERRORISTS

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:30 | 6617330 Main_Sequence
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Ain't this the fucking truth.  

Saudi & Qatari Sheikhs are probably beating their slaves and wives with much more frequency and throwing tantrums over what is currently happening to their "investment" in the region.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:31 | 6616961 NoWayJose
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The Saudis have enjoyed a quiet kingdom by handing out enormous oil profits to its people and keeping their nose out of trouble spots in the Middle East. The louder they get, the greater the chance that their kingdom will no longer stay 'quiet'.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:01 | 6617144 roadhazard
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They want infidel boots on the ground protecting their shit. Obama sez wait for the Next Prez. The Saudis make me laugh when that get all belligerent and shit. Pussies standing behind the US. It's everything they can do to stop the Yemen sand people.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:32 | 6616962 NoWayJose
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It's war!

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:32 | 6616973 Herdee
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That was George Bush,holding hands with a terrorist behind 911.

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 14:55 | 6617109 Flying Wombat
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US Complains As Russia Bombs its Terrorists

http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=515290

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 15:39 | 6617380 Joe A
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And SA is on the UN human rights council...

Thu, 10/01/2015 - 17:11 | 6617857 gaoptimize
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Why didn't George Bush have the decent Christian thought to tell the Saudis that they were going to need to reform their human rights situation in order for the US to maintain our cordial diplomatic status?  Never mind.  I think I know a few reasons.  But how can he pal it up with such butchers? 

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