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Originally Posted by Schone23666
Not sure what all this means, will have to see how it all plays out I guess...
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I doubt it will mean much at all outside Saudi Arabia. Real politic will continue as normal. As in, the US is ideologically opposed to non-democratic, fundamentalist regimes but is more than happy to look the other way if a given regime is providing a much-needed commodity (in this case, oil). Prince Nayef will continue to sell the US oil. On it goes.
I'm not really singling out the US, mind you. My own country plays a similar sort of game with China. On the one hand we are critical of exactly the sort of government and human rights record the Chinese have, on the other hand we owe much of our current economic prosperity to China's demand for our raw materials so our government has very little to say about the appalling ways in which China conducts itself.
The world continues to turn, and I continue to feel slightly dirty about it all.