Saturday, October 31, 2015

If We Are Known by the Company We Keep, Why Are We Keeping Company with Thugs and Butchers?


By "thugs and butchers" I'm referring to the House of Saud and the detritus of princes and sheikhs of the other Gulf States at whose behest we in the West keep getting mired in ground and air wars against the little Sunni hellions they keep spawning.

These jackasses are depraved thugs and butchers. Take the Saudis who practice a form of radical Sunni Islamism that's shared with outfits like al Qaeda and the even bloodier Islamic State.  We know from Hillary Clinton's state department cables, duly leaked and published by WikiLeaks, that the US was well aware that ISIS was a Saudi initiative.  Which goes a long way to explaining why, while we're over there playing aerial "whack-a-mole" with ISIS, Saudi jets are screaming over Yemen bombing Houthi rebels who are actually fiercely fighting both ISIS and al Qaeda forces.

Then there's the beheading business that really offended Western sensibilities when conducted by ISIS insurgents but not so much when directed by our Saudi allies. The Saudis like to execute their condemned in public and they're doing it roughly every other day. Half of those are executed for drug offences which, by simple math, means the Saudis execute someone for drug offences about every four days.

One thing about those Saudis is they're unbelievably tough on drugs. Zero tolerance. Capital punishment - by scimitar blows to the neck in the public square. Unless...

Unless you're a member in good standing of the House of Saud. Then, to borrow a Jim Jeffries line, you can "take drugs like a champion" and it's all okay, even if you're caught.

Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdulaziz was caught in an airport in Lebanon on Monday with over two tons of drugs.

Lebanese security found 40 suitcases full of more than 4,000 pounds of amphetamine pills and cocaine on the prince’s private plane, which was on its way to Saudi capital city Riyadh. A security source told AFP that this was the largest smuggling operation ever foiled by Beirut International Airport security.

And prince Abdel Abdulaziz? He caught the next flight back to the sanctuary of Riyadh. Word is he might have gotten a scolding - nah!

Mere days before he was caught in Lebanon, female staffers at a Beverly Hills mansion filed a lawsuit against another Saudi prince, Majid bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, accusing him of sexually abusing them and using illegal drugs. Staffers say the prince, who was doing cocaine and heavily drinking — another illegal activity in Saudi Arabia — ordered them all to strip naked, while uttering “I am a prince and I do what I want.” They also say the prince engaged in homosexual sex, which is punishable by death in the Saudi regime.

The Saudi royal family is infamous for its decadence. These two recent cases are not isolated. WikiLeaks cables show that Saudi princes regularly throw opulent parties inundated with alcohol, drugs, and sex, while the totalitarian religious police turn a blind eye to their felonious activities.

It's funny how we like to cast a stinkeye at Shiite Iran and yet the Shia had nothing to do with the embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, the first World Trade Center bombing, the 9/11 bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, al Qaeda, al Nusra and ISIS. Those are all on the Sunni side of the ledger and they all link back to the Saudis, the Kuwaitis and the other Gulf States. This is all the handiwork of our allies

Christ, no wonder we're furious with Iran. Those underhanded, deceptive buggers didn't do any of this - but I'll bet you they would have if they could have only wanted to but I suppose they couldn't be bothered. Oh well. We've stopped the Shiites from getting nuclear weapons, what a relief! That reminds me, there is a Muslim country with nukes, scads of them. It's the Sunni Muslim nation of Pakistan.

10 comments:

Toby said...

There was a time when an alliance with the Saudis might have made sense. After all, they did have all that oil and they did agree to trade it for US$. Why do we still pretend they are our friends? Oh right, they buy all those expensive war toys.

There needs to be a lot of light on the Saudis. The world needs to know who they are and what they do.

The Mound of Sound said...

The sooner the better, Toby. I'm convinced the Saudis are the main reason we keep getting drawn into conflicts in their nasty corner of the world and the main reason, once in, we cannot get out.

Dana said...

Everything will be OK when dumb ass Albertans get to rename the Calgary airport SHIA.

Anonymous said...

Anyong said.....Dana laugh, laugh and more laugh.

Dana said...

I can't take credit...I should have mentioned in the original post that the credit goes to Scotian for that.

The Mound of Sound said...

Still, Dana, many thanks for passing it along.

Anonymous said...

"Saudis are the main reason we keep getting drawn into conflicts..."
We or the USA? In any case, camel's lovers are responsible for perhaps 1/3 of that. They are most visible though...
A..non

The Mound of Sound said...

A..non. Take a couple of minutes to compose your thoughts. Please come out with something a bit more coherent and avoid pejoratives like "camel's lovers" that really undermine your point.

the salamander said...

.. how is Harper's brilliant Ambassador to Jordan etc doing over there? You know, Harper's former bodyguard & ex RCMP Bruno? That guy with the long background in 'diplomacy' & managing the Harper fleet of armored limos & cloud of black suited security drones. Surely young but middle aged Justin will recall him for a personal debrief.. and update on whatever John Baird was up to re foreign affairs.. Who else did our illustrious leader plant over there in the middle east anyway? And did they follow local custom of attending public beheading, torture, amputations & crucifictions - thus representing our Canadian 'values' well ? ? ? ? Or just as mr Harper demanded.. represent our commercial & economic interests ? ?

The Mound of Sound said...

I think Trudeau will have to review a load of ambassadorial appointments, Sal. Justin has no end of potholes to repair.