And who the hell is going to buy $750 billion in US assets? Who or what country has that money lying around? What a lame threat... The good news is that they can't use oil anymore as a bargaining chip. Isn't it common knowledge that their government funds those crazy religious schools in which the hijackers came from?
All good points made so far in the thread. The threat is that Saudi Arabia will stop buying US treasuries at the auctions. They don't need a "buyer" to pull their money out of the US over a period of time. All they need to do is let their bonds, notes and bills expire and the Treasury becomes the buyer, since it redeems their current paper without selling them any new paper. And that's all it really is: paper. BTW, the Saudi's aren't pumping oil at the rate they are to preserve market share. They're pumping like it's going out of style because oil is going out of style. They're grinding out an asset that is depreciating at an incredible rate due to global warming, Co2 parts per million in the atmosphere and the inevitable legislation that is going to make it very expensive to deal in oil when it passes over the next decade. It's a going out of business sale. In that light the Saudi's are going to be redeeming a lot of those securities anyway. They're going to have to have something to maintain the Saudi standard of living or they are going to be refugees seeking asylum in a hurry. It's very possible that their days as buyers of US sovereign debt are over at this point. They may want harder assets for their cash.
Does make you wonder why they're so adamant about being sued. They know the history and that most of the Hijackers were indeed Saudi. The Saudi Royals just don't want the finger pointing at them and definetly not the negative publicity. Another question has to be why is Obama keeping that report under wraps. He has no particular ties to the Saudi Royals like the Bush's did. Maybe he's worried about the selloff to the point that since he's a lameduck anyway, might as well run out the clock on that report.
The damages from 9/11 would run into the trillions easily. US Foreign and Domestic policy have both been turned on their axes at great expense since it occurred. Multiple violations of accepted international norms if not international law have been violated repeatedly. The same for US Constitutional values. The US economy has been essentially mortgaged to a failed foreign policy that will continue to produce aftershocks for the coming generations. The Saudi's know that somebody is going to get scapegoated for all of that eventually. They're trying desperately not to be that scapegoat.
Yep, I'm shocked they didn't try to do something like this earlier. Every single hijacker on the planes was Saudi along with Bin Laden. I guess when the Bush family is so close to their saudi oil buddies, they have no reason to accuse them or start a war.
I agree, Saudi's are the real fuckers who are funding these radicals like ISIS, Al Qaeda and whatever else...They can't be targeted by drones or whatever so they behind the scenes and act like goat herders
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTip..._dont_use_fabric_softener_on_towels_it_coats/ The reason Saudis are mad.
I can't read Br4d for 16 minutes straight. Why does EVERY post have to end with global catastrophe? Mix it up. Someday close it out with a story about a cute little lost puppy who found its way home to the freckled, little, towheaded schoolgirl. And then resist the urge to mention how she was raped the next day by her neighbor - an out-of-work Teamster, suffering from the Bush tax cuts, a culture of union-busting and our country's over-reliance on the petroleum economy. Geezus.
Do what I do. Whenever I read a Br4d post, I do it with the voice of the guy that narrates the beginning of the Road Warrior in my head.
