lazycomputerkids
Joined: 22 Sep 2009
Posts: 360
Location: Tabuk
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 Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| gorkomi wrote: |
| I do not agree with you completely, but I like your thinking and articulation. |
Thank you. I guess this means I have to broaden my descriptors of your posts beyond prescient and deluded.
| gorkomi wrote: |
| As far as KAUST and Obama knowing about it- who knows? |
To a certainty? No one. Given the context of a nation segregated by gender and a university breaking from such tradition? Highly probable.
| gorkomi wrote: |
| Clinton and Bush were both criticized by Canadians for not knowing there were new passport regulations. |
I missed that tidbit. I recall Bush the Elder garnering criticism for failing to recognize a grocery laser scanner longer after their use was common.
| gorkomi wrote: |
| You mention that Iran and Saudi Arabia come together in times of peace. I never heard a word other than one related to disgust by Saudis when bringing up Iran. |
You ever hear Swedes and Finns describe another?
| gorkomi wrote: |
| My concern is that Saudi Arabia will pay the price, being a next door neighbor, for being an American ally if and when Iran lets off nuclear weapons. |
Given this conditional, the planet pays a price. Why the speculation? Iran recently underwent unprecedented political introspection and yet western media casts the turmoil in fearful terms of an arms race. Why? Because its technological capacity was hidden? The US and England pontificate to the world while conducting research as surreptitious as it is lethal.
| gorkomi wrote: |
| I also fear for teachers and students at KAUST in their first year. I am going to pray that everyone there is safe and that it brings great change to the country. I commend everyone there, but I wouldn't want to be a first year experiment, with all the religious lunatics in Saudi Arabia. |
I don't recall reading of any 1950s civil rights activists living with regret. Much of the sentiment of your post is predicated upon the plausibility of violence contrasted to the Kingdom ending its subjugation of women. KAUST's policy is a small step toward justice and such is how culture evolves. It's like the hedging of a bet. A Faustian caution of sort. |
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