At this moment, the leader of the free world is planning on travelling to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world in order to curtail negative economic effects from placing sanctions against another human rights violator. We’ve stepped through the Looking Glass. We must remember that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Prior to the twentieth century, Saudi Arabia was one of the poorer countries of the world. That changed when cars were invented. Since then, billions of dollars from their oil sales have helped fuel the luxury of the leaders of that Kingdom, luxuries which would have made the bejeweled Mughal emperors jealous with rage. Those who have been paying attention recognize that all of our presidents since then, current and past, have been beholden to that barbaric Kingdom. A Kingdom whose own leaders were shot dead for introducing a television into their homes, where police scourge people for drinking coffee instead of making salah, and where only recently women were given the right to drive.
The squatters in Congress and the White House seem oblivious to this, preferring instead to rename buildings that few visit or falsely slander their own fellow citizens. It is the antithesis of morality to do business with a lesser evil to stop a greater one, or in this case, to stop the economic troubles resulting from that greater evil. Before my readers mention our alliance with Soviet Russia during WW2, let me gently remind them that we already had troops prepared to stop the Evil Empire from spreading its cancer, but certain elements prevented us from removing that tumor.
Now we are facing the fallout from that inaction. Some will ask about alternatives: fracking, electric cars, offshore drilling, etc. We’re asking these questions a hundred years late. While I agree with Congressman Latta that Biden must act rougher with Putin, throwing sanctions at him is like throwing pencil shards at a man with a gun.
“Truly, one hundred rightminded men would be hard to find”-Letter from a Zen Master to a Swordsman
Bill Kennedy IV
Bowling Green.
