Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

Re:Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It by pstuart on Friday November 20, 2015 @03:44PM (#10603741)

> It is simple politics and history

American was at war with Japan and Germany not to long before as well. Now we are best buddies. Things can change if the money's right.

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Re:Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It by ptaipale on Friday November 20, 2015 @03:54PM (#10603809)

There was a fairly complete turnaround in the politics of both Germany and Japan after they lost the Second World War, in case you didn't notice. The "money's right" came as a consequence of that.

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Re:Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It by jacquesm on Friday November 20, 2015 @04:19PM (#10603948)

Nothing rules out Iran having such a complete turnaround. Plenty of people there remember the days of the Shah, they also remember the days of the SAVAK.

Neither of those solutions was 'all good' so at some point the people will say 'enough'. It can take a while.

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Re:Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It by ptaipale on Friday November 20, 2015 @07:23PM (#10604809)

> Nothing rules out Iran having such a complete turnaround.

The purpose of the Guardian Council [0] is precisely to prevent such a turnaround.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Council

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Re:Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It by jacquesm on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:21PM (#10605016)

That sort of thing will be their downfall, it won't prevent much of anything other than maybe temporary.

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