Saudi Arabia executes dissident Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, 46 others

[JackRiddler]

28. "ISIS" is the Saudis

That's reductive, but true enough: "ISIS" is the result of the Saudi regime indoctrinating, dispatching, arming and financing foreign jihadis in Iraq and Syria, who end up recycled into "ISIS," which the US then bombs, or one of the other more "moderate" jihadi militias, which the US sometimes supports openly. And this Saudi practice can't be sold as anything other than also a U.S. policy, since it is done while Saudi enjoys the full backing without criticism from the U.S. U.S. sells the arms with which Saudi Arabia also conducts its simultaneous and official mass-murder in Yemen. U.S. says nothing about Saudi intervention in Bahrain. If we want this to be different, we need to stop othering and hating -- as detestable as this regime and the extremist thought it pushes and many of the people thus produced may be. Change begins at home with things we might change, like ending the longstanding arms and support for this regime, and moving to shut down the ME arms market. Otherwise "we" also own these barbarities.