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Tuesday, September 03, 2002


Jeff Jacoby has some harsh words for the President. This is why:

All of these fuel American antipathy toward Saudi Arabia. But more significant perhaps than any of them is the widening realization that the values and aspirations of Saudi society are fundamentally at odds with the values and aspirations of our own. Virtually everything our civic culture venerates - religious and political tolerance, freedom of speech and expression, constitutional self-government, liberal democracy, sexual equality - Saudi culture abominates. The Saudi princes run an intolerant and repressive totalitarian theocracy - backward, bigoted, and closed. There may be no country on earth with which we have less in common. Read the rest...



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