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As the article kinda mentions in passing, it is sad but interesting to see the standards by which Americans seem to judge Saudi Arabia. Vs. Afghanistan, DR Congo (Zaire), Haiti, Lebanon, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Vatican City, Venezuela, ...

It's almost as if those Americans were far more interested in cheaply staking out their "I'm ideologically superior" status, in their own little social contexts, than they were in the lives and futures of hundreds of millions of people in far-away places, who the Americans know ~nothing about...



> [...] lives and futures of hundreds of millions of people in far-away places, who the Americans know ~nothing about...

Care to enlighten them here? Or must a person have lived somewhere before being critical of anything about the place or its laws?


> Vatican City

really?




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