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    Cherith CutestoryBrendan O'Connor
    1/04/16 9:14pm

    It’s a sign of how easily manipulated we’ve all been in the past that they can intentionally provoke Iran and turn around and claim to be nothing but the good guy/victim and think it will work (which it probably will).

    ETA: “Easily manipulated” sounds like we are the victims, which isn’t what I intended. More like “happy to swallow bullshit”

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      suppiluliumasCherith Cutestory
      1/04/16 9:37pm

      It goes both ways, of course: Iran provokes Saudi Arabia but would love to be seen as the good guy/victim too.

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      Cherith Cutestorysuppiluliumas
      1/04/16 9:38pm

      Of course. It’s a shit show. There are no good guys. Including us or anyone else.

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    gramercypoliceBrendan O'Connor
    1/04/16 9:12pm

    After this year’s elections, President Rump will take charge and calm things down by cutting off somebody’s head and taking their oil and drinking their milkshake and telling Iran to definitely not give Saudi Arabia a code red.

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      polleBrendan O'Connor
      1/04/16 10:00pm

      Working for peace in Syria the same way they are working for peace in Yemen, I suppose .

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        GeorgeGeoffersonLivespolle
        1/04/16 11:01pm

        That was a really weird addition to their statement, huh? If that’s “working for peace in Yemen” I’d hate to see what war in Yemen would mean to them.

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      Obfuscatio: philosopher at largeBrendan O'Connor
      1/04/16 9:27pm

      Ok, I’ve officially lost track. Which side of this Category 9 hurricane are we supposed to be supporting, the leading edge, the advancing side, or the post-eye wall?

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        Montauk MonsterBrendan O'Connor
        1/05/16 1:19pm

        Welfare queens are real, and they are Saudi princes.

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          BusBozoBrendan O'Connor
          1/04/16 9:38pm

          It’s difficult to keep running totals, but I believe that the Saudis are slightly ahead of ISIS in the number of beheadings in the past year, and have a solid lead in death-by-stoning. I can hardly wait for the 18th century to begin there...

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            jezbannedBrendan O'Connor
            1/04/16 9:11pm

            Their word is good enough for me!

            Send ‘em more bombs, Obama! Let’s get this thing done!

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              GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBrendan O'Connor
              1/04/16 10:26pm

              I’ll give this to Dubya: His greatest accomplishment was keeping America’s relationship strong with Saudi Arabia after 9/11 despite it being where the mastermind for the plan came from and the majority of the hijackers. It was a brilliant diversion he pulled. Yes, Afghanistan harbored him (and how the hell he managed to get us into totally unrelated Iraq will be studied for the rest of history), but how Saudi Arabia got out of 9/11 TOTALLY scott-free is goddamn disgusting. Saudi Arabia is basically the factory for the ideologly that has produced the most international jihadist terrorism.

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                Aaron-MorrowBrendan O'Connor
                1/04/16 9:23pm

                “After breaking off diplomatic ties with Iran, Saudi Arabia claims that it remains as committed as ever to securing peace in Syria and Yemen.”

                Technically, this phrase makes the sentence true whether or not you think winning a war is a method of securing peace.

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