There are days that I hate the Guardian!!!! This was in it today, under the title:
Who to cheer for when the result doesn't matter
It's tough finding opposition truly worthy of the Saudis. Not only is it the nation that brought us most of the 9/11 hijackers and Bin Laden, it's also the Bush administration's most trusted ally. That's before we get to the lack of democracy and women's rights, oil pumps and capital punishment. With that and the two most obnoxious wings of the war on terror covered, the Saudis leave a lot of space in the centre and midfield for human rights activists, environmentalists, humanists, democrats and feminists to roam freely. By comparison, Tunisia's record of torture, political imprisonment and suppression of dissent barely features as a handicap. Get on those red jerseys and watch the Carthage Eagles soar.
But I say...GO SAUDI...good luck today!
good luck for both of them, they deserve the best :)
ReplyDeleteit will be a good hard game !
The UK....the country that helped bring us Iraq
ReplyDeletehow many people did they kill there? i bet more than "Saudia killed" on 9/11
...and justice for all
Unfortunately, every single thing they said is true. I was cheering forTunisia based on the same reasoning without reading the guradian.
ReplyDeleteNo competition: I will be consistently rooting against Saudi Arabia until their human rights record (among other things) improves...
ReplyDeleteSorry.
Saudi deserved to win :(
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