Reply #4: Bad analogy, I think

[Fovea]

Isn't the question of indirect versus direct responsibility
an overly nice distinction? If I pay my minister to teach my dog to kill, and then turn him loose in your yard, am I not culpable? Are you culpable when my dog kills your meter reader? Neither is Germany.

The Saudi Govt sponsors clerics who promote the
wahabbist world view in their non-secular school system.

They point radicals (and sometimes chase them off) at other countries, to insure their own
freedom from terror.

This strategy did not work for England or France in the 14th C Spanish wars, and it won't work for SA. While it only defers the holocaust in SA, it sends it off to be refined elsewhere, to the detriment of the rest of the world, Islamic or infidel.

Just like the fellow who hires someone to kill their neighbor, the SA govt not only allowed this to happen, they encouraged it. To absolve them of blame is no better than buying the 'bad apple' theory of Abu Ghraib, despite the Gonzales memorandum, IMO.