Pakistan & Saudi Arabia - Go figure!

Thanks to Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times for his insightful synopsis of who’s doing what to whom in Central Asia and its impact on America.   It's brilliant!   Read the full article here.

• The 911 terrorist attack was planned, executed and funded by radical Pakistanis and Saudis.

• We invaded Iraq & Afghanistan because Pakistan has nukes that we fear and Saudi Arabia has oil that we crave!

• The Pakistani Army is obsessed with what it says is the threat from India.

• The absence of either a stable democracy in Pakistan or a decent public education system only swells the ranks on the Taliban.

• Pakistan thinks it must control Afghanistan because if India controlled Afghanistan, Pakistan would be wedged between the two!

• Saudi Arabia is built around a ruling bargain between the moderate al-Saud family and the Wahhabi fundamentalist establishment

• The al-Sauds get to rule and the Wahhabis get to impose on their society the most puritanical Islam – and export it to mosques and schools across the Muslim world…including Pakistan with money earned by selling oil to America!

So….

We pay Pakistan to help us in Afghanistan even though we know some of that money is killing our own soldiers because we fear that just leaving could lead to Pakistan’s Islamists controlling its bomb.

We send Saudi Arabia money for oil, even though we know that some it ends up financing the very people we are fighting, because fighting the Saudis over their ideological exports seems too destabilizing!

How many American lives and dollars? Go figure!