I've seen a lot of complaints from the beards about the "Saudi connection" part of the film. That was my favorite part! The point isn't that the Saudi government attacked the US but that the Saudis have been cynically buying off their own radicals, who got out of control and attacked the US, and then the Saudis covered it up, with our own government's help. Moore could have clearer about this, but his point is we're in bed with the Saudis (indisputable), their money buys a lot of influence, and the Administration has dual loyalties as Americans, on the one hand, who presumably don't want to be attacked, and business men, on the other, who want to get as rich as they possibly can selling oil and/or armaments. One area Moore didn't touch is the degree to which the attacks were blowback from our blank check support of Sharon and the Likud party. Maybe the contradiction that the Administration would cater to Israel and also their arch-enemies the Arabs is too much to chew on at the same time. To me, it's not a contradiction: if you're Carlyle you get rich arming both sides, and then get richer when that cold-blooded policy leads to little outbreaks of unpleasantness like attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. Either way you get rich.
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- tom moody 6-30-2004 6:48 pm