My tinfoil hat
Maybe the whole flareup about Bush calling Obama an "appeaser" yesterday was also about dominating the headlines so nobody would notice this.
This isn't India, or even Pakistan. If the Saudi monarchy falls, the replacement government is likely to be Islamic fundamentalist of some sort very likely to have direct ties to terrorists.
Then, of course, there's the obvious Saudi-Iran juxtaposition.
(Oil hit another record today as Bush meets with the Saudi king.)
In a separate development on Friday, the United States said it would sign an agreement with Saudi Arabia to help the kingdom develop peaceful nuclear energy.
This isn't India, or even Pakistan. If the Saudi monarchy falls, the replacement government is likely to be Islamic fundamentalist of some sort very likely to have direct ties to terrorists.
Then, of course, there's the obvious Saudi-Iran juxtaposition.
(Oil hit another record today as Bush meets with the Saudi king.)
posted by mikevotes at
6:21 AM
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Wow. This would be huge.
I wonder how will sit with the UN, or Iran for that matter.
But it's not as sexy as a bitch-slap fight between political parties so we won't hear about it.
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-epm, at 8:35 AM
Perhaps because nuclear power as an energy option is getting no traction here in the states, Bush wants to put it on the front pages by talking it up with other countries.
And Arabia has no water with which to cool a nuclear reactor, meaning that they'll have to site it near an ocean. Imagine a nuclear incident involving the Gulf of Aqaba, or one involving the oil shipping lanes...
This whole 'appeasement' nonsense is getting so much attention that nothing else of substance is being heard.
(Thanks, Fox News -- we can always depend on you for following the least important stories. None of you seem to know the difference between appeasement and diplomacy, and by the time the rest of the country has caught up on the nuances, you'll be on to some other kind of insubstantial flap.)
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r8r, at 12:57 PM
EPM, It's been slowly bubbling for awhile that Saudi wants nuclear tech.
What we don't know here is exactly what sort of cooperation is being discussed. Who runs the fuel cycle for instance? Are they Saudi plants or foreign managed? All that matters.
But, fear of Iran is definitely the driver behind this which tells me the Saudis and US are contingency planning for a nuclear Iran.
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r8r,
I didn't even think about the siting, and that really does matter.
My guess is that this is taking place for two reasons, 1) to assuage the Saudis over Iran, and 2) to try and take some of the Saudi power generation out of the oil and gas market.
But, I see huge risks. The Saud's will not control that country forever.
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mikevotes, at 1:51 PM
Presumably you're worried about an Arab nuclear bomb is that it? America has to make up its mind...either they modernize or they stay in the middle ages...which is it to be?
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