Re: [A-List] US/Saudi tensions

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Keaney <michael.keaney@xxxxxx> said:

The US and its Saudi satraps are
> in this together, and Saudi disinvestment in the US I do not believe
was
> insignificant, if you consider just how much trouble successive US
> administrations went to to make sure that petro*dollars* were recycled
> through US banks. At a time when the dollar is looking dangerously
weak
> while the price of oil looks upward bound there are profound economic
> implications. The US needs to attract over $1bn every day simply to
support
> its mammoth current account deficit. Saudi disinvestment, actual or
even
> imagined, at a time like this is not to be sneezed at. Thus I justify
my use
> of the title thread because, like each other or loathe each other,
each
> regime, for different reasons and to different degrees, depends upon
the
> other, whatever the personal chemistry and inconvenient facts that may
> complicate the relationship. Meanwhile you are free, of course, to
> contribute your own more incisive thread title, should you so wish.
>
> Michael Keaney
>
>
>

I don't have time, again, but I will state this much. Saudi
disinvestment is imaginary. What brought it into the realm of reality
is the American goal of getting rid of the Saudi regime for a more
pliant one (yes, such a thing is possible). The title of the thread,
more accurately, should be "Americans targets Saudis". The fact is that
we all knew a long time ago that the US government and the Saudis had
crossed hairs somewhere in all of the 9-11 jumble. The reason it is
being brought up now is because Saudi Arabia is another mere stepping
stone in the goal of gaining total control of the Mid East. In the long
term, the US oil elites who seized power in what amounts to an auto-
golpe are not going to allow anyone else in, Saudi royals or German
bourgeois. The stories that are being floated are significant not at
all because of their content, but because they appear at all.

These stories are red flags that the American plan is about to tack on
another victim. That is why I oppose the thread title, not because the
*ideas* of the stories are insignificant, but that the real news is the
appearance of the stories. The same is true of Zimbabwe. It's not a
statement of falsity or truth bearing that I mentioned the "incvasion
for feeding the matabele"  story. I called it because it is a signal to
us that imperialism is attacking their sovereignty and about to do so
through the use of good vs. evil propaganda.

Now, I don't recall calling the americans "evil" or "racist", in the
Mid East, but thanks for giving me a different form of hyperbole than
that which I chose for myself. I see too many first worlders wandering
off into long interesting research units into the Saudi economy. It's
relevant, but only just so. We need to remember why we are here, it's
not to operate in an analytical vacuum, nor is it to repeat the line of
bourgeois media.
--
Macdonald Stainsby,
External Relations Co-ordinator,
Douglas Students Union.
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