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Saudi Arabia		  
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Iran		  
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« on: January 12, 2015, 10:59:35 PM »
Well?
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2015, 11:03:27 PM »
Iran is secular and liberal compared to Saudi Arabia.

Iran.
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 11:22:18 PM »
Neither
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2015, 11:23:56 PM »
The one with some sort of democracy. Iran.
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2015, 11:38:58 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2015, 11:27:42 AM »
Neither, but of these two options, Iran.
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« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2015, 11:29:25 AM »
Quote from: Senator TNF on January 13, 2015, 11:27:42 AM
Neither, but of these two options, Iran.
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« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2015, 11:42:32 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2015, 12:53:16 PM »
Iran...I guess Tongue
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« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2015, 01:49:23 PM »
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/24/when-it-comes-beheadings-isis-has-nothing-over-saudi-arabia-277385.html
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« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2015, 02:38:13 PM »
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« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2015, 03:07:20 PM »

^

What a strange selection of people to all agree with each other.

and they are, of course, right.
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« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2015, 03:59:21 PM »
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« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2015, 04:23:46 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2015, 04:36:43 PM »
Iran is the lesser of two evils. It kidnapped a building full of Americans in 1979. Saudi Arabia has financially enabled the death of thousands of Americans over the past two decades.
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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2015, 04:48:51 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2015, 04:51:38 PM »
Just a thought:

Imagine the progress we could've made had we sided with the Pan-Arab Nationalists instead of Israel in the 1950's-70's.

Ugh.
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2015, 06:09:17 PM »
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2015, 07:50:48 PM »

I don't think one answer is "liberal" or "conservative" ... Both of these countries' regimes suck.
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« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2015, 09:00:43 PM »
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« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2015, 11:37:32 PM »
Quote from: Cory on January 13, 2015, 04:51:38 PM
Just a thought:

Imagine the progress we could've made had we sided with the Pan-Arab Nationalists instead of Israel in the 1950's-70's.

Ugh.



Even if they'd gone through a nasty "Cultural Revolution" phase, a somewhat less authoritarian, Arab equivalent of the People's Republic of China would be better for the average Middle Easterner compared to their current choices of Sectarian Failed State or Highly Oppressive and Superstitious Rentier Gerontocracy.
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« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2015, 08:33:25 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2015, 01:03:34 PM »
Quote from: Cory on January 13, 2015, 04:51:38 PM
Just a thought:

Imagine the progress we could've made had we sided with the Pan-Arab Nationalists instead of Israel in the 1950's-70's.

Ugh.

there are always these woulda-coulda-shouldas in history.  as a man born in 1990, I've only known a unipolar world.   the idea that the US-NATO bloc was dead scared of the Soviet model in the 50s and 60s, with bourgeois economists projecting Russian living standards would surpass the US by 2000, is nearly impossible for me to wrap my head around.  when Khrushhev said "history is on our side, we will attend your funeral", it wasn't reducible to simple jingoistic rhetoric.  the Soviets believed it, and the at least a few American bureaucrats did, too.
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« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2015, 01:21:28 PM »
But I thought Iran was part of the axis of evil!?
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« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2015, 06:54:17 PM »
Saudi Arabia, since they aren't as blatantly and rabidly anti-American.
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