"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
So says Alan Greenspan. To which I'd add: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the modern appearance and relentless growth of Saudi Wahhabism -- and its vicious offshoots like al Qaeda -- is largely about oil." The fact is, if the damned Saudis didn't have the vast oil wealth, if we heard of Wahhabism at all, it would only be because we'd read about the quaint little religion as we looked at pictures of obscure goat and camel herders in the pages of the National Geographic.
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Some people seemed to be trying to remember something about the date 9/11. Can you remember what it was? I can't either...
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