As an American citizen, do I want to believe that we do work to promote liberty worldwide? I do indeed. However, can I ask the rest of the world to believe that when I keep running into embarassing evidence of policy to the contrary?

According to the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report released by the United States’Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, makes note of Eritrea being the recipient of continued applied sanctions under the Arms Export Control Act. Meawhile, “in September 2005 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice re-designated Saudi Arabia as a CPC [Country of Particular Concern], and the Government was issued a waiver of sanctions ‘to further the purposes of the Act.’”

I don’t count that as any kind of stand on the stated principles I cherish. Matter of fact, the colloquilaism “pussy out” readily suggests itself instead.

What else is predominant in the world’s attention? The US’aid and support for Pakistan’s Musharraf despite his undercutting of judicial review, correct? Is it not also correct that it is a secular regime that STILL has capital blasphemy laws in effect (Section 295-C)? What of our efforts to change that? Is it possible that the United States’current administration applied behind-the-scenes pressure to at least prompt Musharraf to step down from his offical post as general? Yes, I concede the possibility, but we can’t tell. I am asking for our pressures to be not so invisible. We can’t see statecraft in action when it comes to our reputation any more than the rest of the world can.

China? We bent over backwards to give them a Most Favored Nation trading partner status beofre their induction into the WTO, and still the circulation of the iconic image a lone protestor facing down a tank is a jailable offense, as is forming labor unions and reporting on anything that could embarass The State.

I’m through accepting that engagement produces favorable results in the pursuit of liberty and accountability. Furthermore, I’m also through accepting that we can deploy our troops abroad in the explicit name of defending others’freedoms without asking of our own citizenry certain sacrifices of comfort that pales in shameful comparison to the possible sacrifice of life and limb. If it means alarming increases in oil prices and the cost of manufactured products, and the resulatant complications, then we either need to say so be it or to not be surprised when we are not believed, even by ourselves.

We aren’t satanic worshiper !!!!!

There are lots of people in Saudi who are very liberal or just normal but not conservatively strict

and YES i believe we have a corruption in Saudi Arabia but no one would take a bribe !

Lastly, please don’t think that i agree with what happened to the girl!!

The woman was married and having an affair with another man. They were having sex on the beach at night when a group of men approached them and caught them in the act. They attacked the man and raped her. No body knew about it until her husband found out a couple of months later from an anonymous caller. That’s when he confronted her and when she admitted to him it was true, he went to the police and filed a complaint against her and the others. Justice procedures took place as they would do in any other case. My heart goes to the poor husband who had a cheating wife who had no respect for her family nor for herself, and I hope she did not bring her husband or herself a sexual tansmitted disease like AIDS!