Right on Mark. Saudi Arabia might not have liked Bin Laden personally, but it did nothing and continues to do nothing to prevent the spread of the intolerant Wahhabi-Salafist strain of Islam that is the core material of groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. By building so many fundamentalist Wahhabi madrasas and sending so many imams abroad, Saudi Arabia assured that Bin Laden would have a vast pool of recruits with which he could implement 9/11 and they need to be held accountable for that.
Are you actually making excuses for Jordan Mr. Cole?
So what if Jordan is a tiny country, it has an army trained and equipped by America and Israel. True, it is not battle tested, but it is far better equipped and organized than any Syrian opposition groups or the still-being-reconstructed Iraqi army. And if Jordan can send its fighter jets all the way to Yemen, it can certainly send them to Raqqa.
The truth is that Jordan, like America's other Sunni Arab 'friends', is a complete coward that does not understand what the word 'friend' or 'ally' means.
Right on Mark. Saudi Arabia might not have liked Bin Laden personally, but it did nothing and continues to do nothing to prevent the spread of the intolerant Wahhabi-Salafist strain of Islam that is the core material of groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. By building so many fundamentalist Wahhabi madrasas and sending so many imams abroad, Saudi Arabia assured that Bin Laden would have a vast pool of recruits with which he could implement 9/11 and they need to be held accountable for that.
Are you actually making excuses for Jordan Mr. Cole?
So what if Jordan is a tiny country, it has an army trained and equipped by America and Israel. True, it is not battle tested, but it is far better equipped and organized than any Syrian opposition groups or the still-being-reconstructed Iraqi army. And if Jordan can send its fighter jets all the way to Yemen, it can certainly send them to Raqqa.
The truth is that Jordan, like America's other Sunni Arab 'friends', is a complete coward that does not understand what the word 'friend' or 'ally' means.