{"id":1669,"date":"2007-11-16T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T13:04:39","slug":"saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/7098480.stm\">I despise this regime more than words can express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What in hell&#8217;s name are we doing assorting with such people? This kind of wanton, gleefully unjust barbarity puts them on a par with the Taleban, while the 9\/11 terrorists were primarily Saudi. Yet rather than invade to overthrow the bastards, we faun in front of them with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7070288.stm\">full red carpet treatment<\/a> and sell them <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6920458.stm\">billions of pounds&#8217; worth<\/a> of high-tech (and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/web\/ttt.nsf\/june2001\/saudi_arabia\">not so high-tech<\/a>) weaponry, backed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/armstrade\/story\/0,,2034290,00.html\">bribery and corruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, getting oil&#8217;s lovely. But it&#8217;s not THAT lovely, surely?<\/p>\n<p>(Yet another reason why I don&#8217;t write about the middle east &#8211; it simply enrages and disgusts me too much&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, I despise this regime more than words can express. What in hell&#8217;s name are we doing assorting with such people? This kind of wanton, gleefully unjust barbarity puts them on a par with the Taleban, while the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/saudi-arabia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-the-war-against-terror","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}