So, Fareed Zakaria is not an Arab and he thinks Arabs have difficulty tying their shoes, let alone trying to glue two pieces of paper together.
I’m sure that he’ll argue that he’s not talking about Arabs as a people but only about Saudi Arabian society, and I think that’s a fair distinction up to a point. But if the richest Arab state with all its mineral resources and its number one structural tourism industry (Mecca) can’t figure out how to build a toaster, then basically Arabs are just inferior to Pakistanis.
No doubt, the Arabs in the Saudi kingdom are not known for their industriousness, but they have the money to buy nuclear know-how and there are surely a few Arabs in the world, whether from the Peninsula or not, who can learn the science.
I don’t know if Saudi Arabia will go nuclear in the next ten years or not, but they can if they want.
I’m curious why Fareed Zakaria thinks we’ll sanction Saudi Arabia when we didn’t sanction Israel or Pakistan.
What?
W did everything he could to get more nuclear nations. Insulted Iran. Allowed North Korea to kick out the IAEA. Renounced the ABM Treaty. Continued to give Israel a pass. And pushed to use modernization to allow the US to break out of the SALT restrictions.
Isn’t one of the current “crisis in Society” This week about Political Correctness? Please let me go there.
,” but they have the money to buy nuclear know-how”
But the Saudi’s can’t buy enough Sunni’s ( their brothers) or SHIA( who HATE ISIS, just not as much as ISIS HATES everybody else) to go after the Maniacs, and I mean MANIACS called ISIS.
A country is only as strong as it’s Weakest link. Morality is a huge Weakness. Can anybody imagine the SHOW ISIS will put on if they catch American soldiers?
They will make Bush and Cheney look like the two bit
Torturers they were., except is will be recorded AND Televised.
Please think about the previous paragraph!
That will work for them about as well as Pearl Harbor worked for Hirohito.
I didn’t read that the same way you did. He’s definitely talking about Saudi Arabia, not Arabs. And he isn’t talking about their capabilities as individuals, he is talking about the utter failure of Saudi Arabia to develop an industrial or scientific establishment of any consequence. They just sit fat and happy on their oil fields. This is true. It’s not what they can’t figure out how to do, it’s the path the ruling family has taken. There are plenty of Arabs who can learn the science, but Zakaria also argues that it would not be possible to import the necessary technology in secrecy, and the Pakistanis are not going to be foolish enough to help them.
BTW, Zakaria is not Pakistani. He is Muslim (at least ethnically, I don’t know if he is observant) but his family is from India.
“There are plenty of Arabs who can learn the science,”
BUTT are there plenty of ARABS that the SAUDI’s Will
spend their money on to Fight ISIS?
NUKES are WORTHLESS! Very Big BARK, one time bite!
First time a country uses a Nuclear Bomb, will be the end of society as we know it, including the United States
and the rest of the world, except for maybe some island in the middle of nowhere. in the Pacific
I didn’t say that he was Pakastini, although I guess I may have inadvertently implied it. It’s not much of a distinction anyway, as Pakistanis are also Indians.
Not any more they aren’t. In fact the main reason they are both nuclear powers is because of their military competition with each other.
I THOUGHT that this was one of the very few times the British TRIED to get it right.
Pakistan was drawn as a Muslin heavy country, and India was drawn as a majority Hindu country.
Saudi Arabia owns the Islamic nuclear bomb of Pakistan. Just as Saudi Arabia has funded most of Pakistan’s adventures in Afghanistan and the region. Accused of assisting doctor Shakeel Afridi in a CIA program to locate Osama Bin Laden, NGO Save the Children has come under scrutiny of Islamabad … banned from Pakistan. Naturally, leaders from the domestic terrorist groups have operated with impunity for lack of prosecutors and judges to bring charges or sentence them to prison terms. See recent farce with the schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai – Eight of 10 Malala attackers were allowed to walk free.
Many moons ago, my diary – Nuclear Spy AQ Khan – CIA/America Refused Arrest in 1975 & 1985 as new creve coeur .
Intended comment grew into a diary …
○ My Hunch On Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Nuclear Bomb
VERY interesting!