I am pleased that President George W. Bush and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as representatives of the United States in world politics. When Bush was in office, he and Ms. Rice always wince at the Saudi princes and potentates, criticized inconsequential characters, like Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba. Have they thought it was a good policy to engage in such conduct, or was it just that they do not know better?

Under the editorial board of the Washington Post, the Bush administration, Saudi Arabia as an “ordinary country, and moderate and a loyal ally of the United States.” Mainstream? Moderate? Ally? Wikipedia has described a different view: “A lot of freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrined does not exist, it is claimed that the death penalty and other penalties are often given to suspects without trial. Saudi Arabia for its suppression of religious and political minorities have criticized the torture of prisoners and the attitude to foreign expatriates, homosexuality and women. ”

Well, I take the remark about torture should not be used against the Saudis, as if Bush was in power we have done the same, but the other criticisms seriously. Saudis, however, believe that their draconian measures are needed to keep the crime rate is low. For example, they say that the thief had his hands cut never fly again and it will be a constant reminder of other things that contribute to not be on the other.
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