Not only are the Saudis putting down their own protesters, but they are being used as mercenaries in Bahrain.
The King of Bahrain has declared a state of emergency for three months on the island following weeks of anti-government protests, state television said.
An order by the king “authorised the commander of Bahrain’s defence forces to take all necessary measures to protect the safety of the country and its citizens,” a statement read out on television on Tuesday said.
The development comes a day after a Saudi-led military forces arrived to help prop up the government, which is facing pressure from the Shia majority to implement reforms.
via Bahrain under state of emergency – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.
I know, I know, the oil, but at one cost is our oil coming to us now
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Oil goes at the running price of … our souls. That’s all.
We’ve sold our souls for oil.
Imagine a world in which oil wasn’t a major and powerful commodity. How powerful would Usama bin Laden be in that world? or Gaddaffi? or Hugo Chavez, for that matter?
Yeah … oil sure is the fuel of freedom, or whatever Limbaugh calls it. It seems, rather, that it fuels tyrants.