My understanding is the House of Saud is not really fundamentalist, but they rely on the support of fundamentalist clerics to maintain power / suppress dissent.
That’s why they don’t behave like fundamentalists when visiting the West, and it suggests that the current Saud leader may be engaged in an internal power struggle.
This is accurate from what I’ve gathered. In an undemocratic government, it’s good to keep in mind a challenge to a king’s judgement is a challenge to his authority. He probably felt he almost had to overreact. Of course, it doesn’t make the criticisms any less true.
Or, you know, don’t sell them to regimes like Saudi Arabia.Unfortunately for everyone but arms manufacturers, dealers and the people they bribe, regimes like Saudi Arabia tend to be the countries with money and no arms industry of their own.
Trump will buy this hook, line, and sinker though no one would think it is credible that these people flew to Turkey and did this all on their own in the consulate.
We all know enhanced interrogation isn’t torture, even if some people (completely coincidentally) die during it. There are no lasting effects, because a doctor we paid wrote a paper saying so.