Ok, that required some Yoda level porngooglefu to be even remotely relevant. Kudos.
Ok, that required some Yoda level porngooglefu to be even remotely relevant. Kudos.
Go Ukraine! Piss on the Russian dead.
Actually OBL is the one who essentially broke from the family. They are mostly pro western, oil capitalists and in the views of OBL decadent and wicked. He turned his back on their wealth and their mostly moderate views and has at times indirectly targeted their interests and connections. If push ever came to shove he would have had no trouble directly targeting and killing most of them. Most Wahhabis would have considered it a legit honor killing.
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Of course they do, but let's not forget the Saudi Royal family is a target of the Wahhabis for exactly the same reason. It's actually a rather complex dynamic where the Wahhabi's are on one hand fully supported by the Saudi Royal family and promoted in Saudi Arabia as the most correct version of Islam. But at the same time they become targets of the Wahhabis because Saudi isn't a true theocracy but an Islamic Monarchy. They have and enforce Sharia Law but that isn't good enough for the fundamentalists who criticize the Saudi Royals for their ties to the west and their willingness to embrace modernization.
It's all completely at odds with each other, but imagine for a moment if our government, with all of it's corruption and agenda also had to appease a government church and something like a pope because we were a Democratic Theocracy. We'd have something similar to the same mess, although probably with a lot less decapitation and blown up buildings.
And of course at the end of the day, in a true irony of ironies, the Saudi's look to the US to secure the stability of their position in their country as a result of the Truman pact where we secure their position in exchange for favorable oil prices. Of course they haven't exactly been holding up their end of that deal since the early 1970s. And the only reason we don't tell them to FOAD is because Saudi would become an extremist theocracy overnight and then they'd really be dangerous.
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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