The NY Times op ed is a bit late. Let’s say 35 years too late but still, it is a watershed moment so mark it well. It’s the beginning of the end of the monarchy and so too officially sponsored Salafi Jihad.
There are probably thousands of Americans, a tiny tiny minority to be sure, who see Saudi Arabia in the terms the article does, and worse, but we are nobodies. If perhaps there are a few somebodies who have had those ideas they dared not say it out-loud until now. Now they have permission. It is the Times after all that defines the boundaries of respectable debate on the great foreign policy (and monetary/financial) matters of the day. Think of the Times not as the old Pravda but as Americas Izvestia.
“1917–1991[edit]
Old Izvestia logo. It uses two letters that are no longer used in the Russian language (see Reforms of Russian orthography).
During the Soviet period, while Pravda served as the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Izvestia expressed the official views of the Soviet government as published by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.[3] The full name was Izvestiya Sovetov Narodnykh Deputatov SSSR (in Russian, Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР, the Reports of Soviets of Peoples’ Deputies of the USSR).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izvestia
On the end of the monarchy it is not all good news. Millions upon millions are going to die I believe. Oh well we got every drop of oil they could pump for 40 years so that the American way of life could go on unchanged.
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