Telafight
|
  |
| Joined: 25 Jul 2011 |
| Total Posts: 10466 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 02:07 PM |
| The first thing I'll do is place sanctions against Saudi Arabia. There's a massive violation of human rights going on there, yet, we still tolerate it? |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
pepper0
|
  |
| Joined: 01 Sep 2007 |
| Total Posts: 12032 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 03:24 PM |
| ...And then raise our oil prices even higher? |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
thepit44
|
  |
| Joined: 05 Sep 2008 |
| Total Posts: 21143 |
|
| |
|
pepper0
|
  |
| Joined: 01 Sep 2007 |
| Total Posts: 12032 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 03:30 PM |
| Saudi Arabia is the second largest exporter of oil to the United States, a big percentage. |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
Telafight
|
  |
| Joined: 25 Jul 2011 |
| Total Posts: 10466 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 03:35 PM |
Here are SOME of the human rights violations.
. Witch hunts . Decapitation of prisoners. . Refusal of vote for women. . Religious minorities aren't allowed in cities. . Women aren't allowed to drive. . Suppression of freedom of speech. . Torturing prisoners.
|
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
thepit44
|
  |
| Joined: 05 Sep 2008 |
| Total Posts: 21143 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 03:35 PM |
| That doesn't mean it has to be. Canada has more than enough oil for the United States to last one. If only Obama would approve that pipeline. |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 03 May 2013 04:35 PM |
| The United States actually has a lot of domestic oil. they don't need oil imports from other countries |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
pepper0
|
  |
| Joined: 01 Sep 2007 |
| Total Posts: 12032 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 05:50 PM |
| ^ This is true. Not only that, there is the Marcellus shale (natural gas) that will go into use within a few years |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 03 May 2013 06:01 PM |
You don't mess with people who prepare your food.
Likewise, you don't go against one of the only countries that can ramp up oil production in a snap.
Canada may have the resources, but not the means to reach them currently. Pretty sure we're importing oil from Canada already. |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 03 May 2013 06:21 PM |
We should invest in American oil, which there is a lot of in Alaska.
But of course, we aren't allowed to drill it.
|
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
infinete
|
  |
| Joined: 10 Mar 2010 |
| Total Posts: 1743 |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 06:43 PM |
| If you become president get some common sense and stay the hell away from the middle east |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| 03 May 2013 10:27 PM |
| The United States committed most of those same atrocities for over a hundred years |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
| |
|
|
| 04 May 2013 05:50 AM |
. Religious minorities aren't allowed in cities.
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
AND WRONG.
Typical American.
Everyone is allowed in Mecca but only Muslims can go to Masjid al-Haram which is a Mosque anyway.
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 05:52 AM |
. Torturing prisoners.
Because what the US did to Iraqi's in Abu Ghraib wasn't torture. And what the US did during the Cold War wasn't torture. What they did to POW's in Vietnam wasn't torture. What they did in WW2 wasn't torture. What they do in Gitmo isn't torture.
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 05:54 AM |
Place sanctions on Florida.
They passed an anti-Sharia law that in turn prevents Orthodox Jewish and Muslim women from getting divorced.
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 05:59 AM |
. Refusal of vote for women.
... You are a clueless American.
King Abdullah, 87, announces a 'cautious reform' which will allow women the right to vote and stand for election. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members.
"Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term," Abdullah, 87, said in a speech.
"Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote," he added.
Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving.
The changes will come after elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office.
"This is great news," said Wajeha al-Huwaider, a Saudi writer and women's rights activist. "Women's voices will finally be heard.
"Now it is time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to drive cars and not being able to function, to live a normal life without male guardians."
The king did not address the issue of women being allowed to drive. Although there is no written law against women driving, they are not issued licences, effectively banning the practice. A campaign this summer by women who broke Saudi law by driving on the kingdom's city streets prompted some arrests.
Women in Saudi Arabia must also have written approval from a male guardian - a father, husband, brother or son - to leave the country, work or even undergo certain medical operations.
Activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women. Ruled by an absolute monarchy supported by conservative Wahhabi clerics, Saudi Arabia is a conservative country where religious police patrol the streets to ensure public segregation between men and women.
King Abdullah has long been pushing cautious political reforms, but in a country where conservative clerics and senior members of the ruling family oppose even minor changes, liberalisation has been very gradual.
Despite calls on social media for widespread protests in Saudi Arabia during the Arab Spring pro-democracy protests in the Middle East and north Africa, the only noteworthy demonstrations were confined to the country's east, which is home to the country's Shia minority.
Saudi Arabia will hold only its second nationwide elections in recent memory on Thursday for seats on local councils, but critics of the ruling al-Saud family say the poll, in which voting is limited to men, is a charade.
Supporters of the absolute monarchy say the elections are designed to give Saudis a greater say in politics, but critics point out that the elections are for only half the seats on councils that have few powers.
The Shura council, which vets legislation but cannot veto it or enforce changes, is fully appointed by the king.
"Despite the issue of the effectiveness of these councils, women's involvement in them was necessary. Maybe after women join there will be other changes," said Naila Attar, who organised the Baladi (Arabic for My Country) campaign calling for women's involvement in the local council elections.
"I believe this is a step to involve women in the public sphere. It is the top of the pyramid and a step in the direction for more decisions regarding women."
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 06:00 AM |
Go ahead put sanctions on Saudi Arabia see what that does to your economy.
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 09:09 AM |
| A wee bit anti-American today, aren't we? |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 10:06 AM |
I am a south Iraqi sunni and proud as heck to be Arab what do you expect, me to like a country that has been bombing my extended family for 10 years and invoking racism against myself?
~Falafel Monster of Ajman the creature that tormented the dreams of every Arab child growing up in the 90's.~ |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
Corridan
|
  |
| Joined: 23 Nov 2012 |
| Total Posts: 7344 |
|
|
| 04 May 2013 10:59 AM |
| Human rights are stupid anyways who cares |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 11:55 AM |
What they do in Gitmo isn't torture. ------------------------------------------------------- Gitmo is necessary, and I support it 100%.
The prisoners have plotted attacks against America, huge ones too. We can't allow being 'sensitive' and 'nice' to endanger our citizens, or the welfare of our allies. |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|
|
| 04 May 2013 11:59 AM |
@Rubiks
Read the NDAA your reasoning fails miserably not everybody there has done ANYTHING. There are tons of people there who have done nothing at all. The united states is worse then the Soviet Union was at getting POWs back to there own countries. |
|
|
| Report Abuse |
|
|