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Re:Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since... by imglorp on Monday July 18, 2016 @12:06PM (#12115908)
That was kinda my point. As long as they're being okay neighbors and keeping the human rights violations in line, IMHO countries deserve self determination without the superpowers bullying via overthrowing (Assad)--or just plain invading (eg Ukraine).
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Re:Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since... by jbooth on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:29PM (#12116587)
That's a reasonable point (although it's not like Assad is short on human rights violations), but implying there's some sort of "natural line of development" that would have happened without interaction with the west really strikes me as (unintentionally) racist.
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Re:Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since... by imglorp on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:19PM (#12118117)
No, I was making an obtuse reference to non-interference. Perhaps a poor metaphor.
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