re: #6 Obdicut

It’s the central point. He’s claiming the US is subservient to the Arab states. It’s not true. We’re far too entangled with them thanks to our reliance on oil, but there is no way that the US’s attitude towards Arab states can be described as ‘kow-towing’.

Bull shit. If the Arab states did not have oil, the United States would have long ago located its embassy in Jerusalem, as it does in the capital city of every other country with which we have diplomatic relations, and would not hesitate to identify the country in which Jerusalem is located. That we do not do so is solely a function of wanting to avoid causing offense to those who control the West’s access to oil. That is the epitome of kowtowing, which, Mr. Webster, refers to acting obsequiously, not to actually being subservient to another.