The Real Reason We Should Break With The Saudis

[RonZeplin]

The Real Reason We Should Break With The Saudis

Thursday October 11, 2018

Sudden concern in Washington over Saudi behavior is puzzling. But the disappearance of a Washington Post writer and the suspicion that the Saudi government is involved has led Washington and particularly the Senate and House to demand some answers. They didn't care much about Saudi involvement with terrorists in Syria or the evil Saudi war on Yemen. Should we break with the Saudis? Yes. Why? Tune in to today's Liberty Report:

[PierzStyx]

It'll never happen. The Saudis will provide a fall guy first.

[timosman]

It'll never happen. The Saudis will provide a fall guy first.

Hillary?

[Republicanguy]

Very difficult to let go from a group who have been paid and helped by America, in return for access to energy.

[Bern]

Be careful what you wish for. They may be a bad actor, but they are also the lynch pin of the petrodollar which sustains our standard of living. I really don't see us giving them the Libya treatment if they decide to start selling their oil in Euros or something other than the dollar.

[Republicanguy]

So a libertarian who is actually realistic about America's foreign relation with another state, and has to be aware that one can't read the diktat of a long dead head of state who was an advocate of non entangling alliances when one loves petroleum, gosh some folk have been watching too much star trek. Nice cheap, but hard energy from the Earth. Yeah drill baby drill!

[AZJoe]

There are so many to choose from:

• Yemen
• dictatorship
• totalitarian
• beheadings
• Wahhabist
• manufactures, funds, arms extremist terorrists
• civil rights atrocities
• Censorship
• Religious oppression
• anti-liberty
• ...

[phill4paul]

Quit selling our excess abroad? Heresy!

[osan]

Hillary?

I'd take it, if it got a rope around its neck.

[osan]

So a libertarian who is actually realistic about America's foreign relation with another state, and has to be aware that one can't read the diktat of a long dead head of state who was an advocate of non entangling alliances when one loves petroleum, gosh some folk have been watching too much star trek. Nice cheap, but hard energy from the Earth. Yeah drill baby drill!

Are you suggesting we abandon petroleum?

I hope you realize that as things currently stand, civilization would collapse in every locus that is not "third-world". Food would become very scarce, medicine would all but disappear, no more cars, powered flight... though I bet there'd be plenty of vertical flight straight downward as the new reality became too much to cope with for millions.

[Bern]

Are you suggesting we abandon petroleum?
...

The completely invisible elephant in the room is that all we really need to do is change our monetary policy and we become free of dependence upon the petrodollar and Saudi Arabia. Enact Ron Paul's old competing currencies bill. Let FRNs live or die by market dynamics that no longer govern the fate of the nation. $.02

[osan]

The completely invisible elephant in the room is that all we really need to do is change our monetary policy and we become free of dependence upon the petrodollar and Saudi Arabia. Enact Ron Paul's old competing currencies bill. Let FRNs live or die by market dynamics that no longer govern the fate of the nation. $.02

That requires men of vision and courage.


Good luck with that.

[dean.engelhardt]

The completely invisible elephant in the room is that all we really need to do is change our monetary policy and we become free of dependence upon the petrodollar and Saudi Arabia. Enact Ron Paul's old competing currencies bill. Let FRNs live or die by market dynamics that no longer govern the fate of the nation. $.02

Such a good point. We have to establish the value of the USD to something else besides the Petrodollar to break with Saudi, otherwise get ready for a free-fall.

[Republicanguy]

The point being, some have advocated not having any kind of dodgy deals with other countries. It is a business, as well as America needs the imports. The shale fracking is temporary.

Mr Paul said I don't have all the answers, or at least said something like that during his 2011 run, nobody was going to accept that from a leader. A leader must appear strong, and have a powerful government to do so, no liberty government is going to guarantee energy. Just a myth.

[Swordsmyth]

The point being, some have advocated not having any kind of dodgy deals with other countries. It is a business, as well as America needs the imports. The shale fracking is temporary.

Mr Paul said I don't have all the answers, or at least said something like that during his 2011 run, nobody was going to accept that from a leader. A leader must appear strong, and have a powerful government to do so, no liberty government is going to guarantee energy. Just a myth.

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.”

― Socrates