"Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday lambasted the
'illegitimate foreign occupation' of Iraq by US-led forces and urged Arab
leaders attending a historic summit in the Saudi capital not to allow
foreign powers to determine the future course of the region," the Arab News
reports from Riyadh:
In his keynote address opening the two-day summit, King
Abdullah called upon Arab leaders to usher in a new era
in Arab joint work while holding them accountable for
disunity in the Arab world over the past decades.
"In Iraq, blood flows between brothers in the shadow of an
illegitimate foreign occupation and hateful sectarianism,
threatening a civil war," King Abdullah said after taking
over the presidency of the 23-member Arab League from
Sudan's President Omar Bashir.
This is the thanks we get for stationing our troops on the Arabian Peninsula
for a dozen years to defend the occupying Saud family from Saddam Hussein,
and for remaining in Iraq, as, among other things, a check on Saudi Arabia's
Shiite rival, Iran?
Well, yes, we suppose it is. Today's Saudi ingratitude is of a piece with
Western European ingratitude during and after the Cold War. It's human
nature, at least among those who are not mature enough to take
responsibility for themselves, to resent those on whom one depends. Ask any
parent of teenagers.
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