Saudi Barbarism (New) (Commentary)

John McCain is not one of my favorite people. Hw has switched positions on so many issues over the past 8 years that it is virtually impossible to understand his position on any of the issues at any given time. Nonetheless, I heard him on the news this morning pointing out that something akin to 400 million dollars a year is spent by American citizens to buy gas and oil from the Saudis. Some of that money winds up in the hands of terrorists who would like to destroy us.

Saudi Arabia is a country we have to cozy up to for our energy needs, but it is not a nation that we should be providing arms to, as some day we will wind up fighting against our own technology.

If you need convincing, beyond the fact that 19 of the 20 terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11 were Saudis, that much of Saudi Arabia is not a civilized nation, read the following.

From Boing Boing...

The Saudi government is set to execute an illiterate woman for the crime of "witchcraft." She "confessed" to the crime after being beaten by the religious police and then fingerprinting a confession she could not read. The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read. Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent...

When an appeal court decided she should not be executed, the law courts imposed the death sentence again, arguing that it would be in the public interest.