@augustlan ” Because it wasn’t a state-sponsored act of war. It’s not as if the Saudi government engineered the plot (at least, not to my knowledge).” Well the Al Qaeda was not in official capacity in Afghanistan either. They were no more official than all the militias that operate here on US soil. And if it was Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia that carried out the attack why go after suspected Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?
Abu Zubaydah, whom most probably don’t remember, was a suspected high value terrorist wounded and captured in Pakistan of all places. To loosen his tongue he was whisked secretly to Afghanistan where he was threatened to be handed over to the Saudis because they would torture him to make him talk. Every one else would have just been packed off to Gitmo, but rather then just sending him, Zubaydah, to Gitmo along with the falafel seller who had the bad luck of servicing Bin Laden’s 5th lieutenant from the left they gave him “special” treatment; they posed as Saudis who would torture him if he did not tell the Americans what they wanted to know. And in backdoor torture fashion the US with held pain medication when is tongue got slow nothing like bribing a man in pain, wonder if I can “convince” someone to sign over their car to me that way?. The interesting thing is instead of being terrified as the US thought he was glad to see them and started speaking freely with the “fake Saudi agents”. Zubaydah then asked his interrogators to call a senior member of the Saudi royal family. And Zubaydah provided a private home number and a cell phone number from memory. Interesting huh? Why would a “high value” terrorist have home and private cell numbers to members of the Royal Family? The men was Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, one of King Fahd’s nephews, and it was later learned he was in the US at the time of the attack. And while being denied pain meds and slipped a thiopental sodium drip (a so-called truth serum) he laid out details of how he and the Al Qaeda hierarchy had been supported at high levels inside the Saudi and Pakistan governments. The CIA backdoor tortured this out of him far more credible than Iraq’s WMD maybe? If they, the CIA, can go of flimsy intel to start a war in Iraq and not even follow up on what Zubaydah told them? Go figure?
@dpworkin Larvae for you, that is about right.
@unused_bagels The logic of your answer is way above the heads of many, they won’t or can’t get it. Larvae for you.
@filmfann *_” Just because they were from Saudi Arabia, doesn’t mean that’s what made them terrorists, directly.” Just because the head of Al Qaeda was supposedly hiding in Afghanistan don’t mean the Taliban attacked the Twin Towers either but they got bombed for it, so what is the difference?
@ChazMaz Larvae for you. That is part of it, to feel better about being put on his knees with his lips on the oil pipe Uncle Sam wants to keep them happy just long enough to put a garrison there ala Darth Vader to play Arab against Arab while really being the boot lackey of Israel.