This, I found to be a very interesting piece... a good inside look at the evolution of Saudi Arabia. I enjoyed to see it. I was especially impressed at the wisdom of ibn Saud when he wanted to cap the oil well, saying that it would produce too much money, and that would not be a good thing. He was a man that lived humbly, and he was correct that oil wealth changed everything.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmeGCigDD0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmeGCigDD0
I can see where young men living in Saudi Arabia, kept in isolation from knowing the world, might seem to think that
America is to blame for the changes that came to their country...
however, in truth,
the negative change came from within, from those who chose greed over
the good use of wealth for the full benefit of the country as a whole.
The leaders seem to have made wise and considered decisions and
negotiations, but they did not use the benefit for all. They did not
try to build anything of the nation beyond taking oil wealth out of the
ground. They did not put the money to good use in building other
industries and businesses in their country. In other words they do not
reinvest in their country for the benefit of the people.
They seem only
to know how to take, and not how to give... take the money for
pilgrimage... take the money from oil... but what do they then use it
for.... Do they attempt to build up agriculture/methods of irrigation,
or medicine, or research and development, or technology? Nothing.
When
we look at the Romans we see the great things that they built and
achieved. (and though many here will not like to hear it... the same is
true of Israel... and also of Qatar)
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Let us seek Truth together
Blessed be God forever
"I believe in Jesus as I believe in the sun... not because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.: - C.S.Lewis
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