SA better hope their oil lasts and is needed for decades to come. Because without it they seem like a totally inept, incompetent amateur hour country.
We make the best most sophisticated military equipment in the history of man-kind. The Saudis have 100's of BILLIONS $'s of that equipment, yet they can't defeat a bunch of barefoot rebels and allow some drones to take out 1/2 of their oil output.
People in America SHOULD NOT be with such prideful vigor in down-rating with derogatory regard for other nations, whether they are in the Middle East, Far East, Europe, Asia or Africa...
For THE PAST 2 DECADES.... Weapon Proliferation has been on "over-drive" saturating the world with weapons, some of America's top skilled technology engineers and programmers come from some of these exact same foreign nations. Where money is spinning in high volume, the access to get technology is not with the complication it was in the past.
People forget, Iran was able to bring an America Drone down more than a few years ago, which means; not only do they understand the technology, they are proficient in how its utilized as well as how to manage data streams that control it.
This America delusion as if we are so superior, is a fiction that was born from ignoring the fact decades ago, that World War II was not won by America, it was won by "Allied Forces"... not some thing as if America was the only victor in the matter. As to Industry, we had it only because America was not attacked on its mainland by foreign bomb... But we forget... Other Nation have long since rebuilt themselves and they did so improving on mistakes we made. If anyone travels to some foreign countries, and give respectful attention, they will note... many places have far improved on the attributes they incorporate into what they build. American's has not had a national rebuilding boom since the 1990's in building major marquee things,
other than sports stadiums. We have no High Speed Rail, and we've damaged Air Travel to such a degree, that many areas are under-served and gouged by high travel cost.
Hotels in various foreign location have used technology for efficiency and improved customer attributes and many still value the principle of "service".
America is not even in the arena when it comes to "state of the arts public transportation systems", we are not even in the ball park when it comes to "rail system tech and the level of performance China and other nations have achieved. We cannot come close to competing with "bridge building in comparison to the works China has achieved.
They can move multiple 100's of million people daily, "effectively", and we can barely move 100 million functionally, and we are not efficient or highly proficient in doing that.
We spend our time playing Partisan Political Bickering, still trying to deny "the people" what ever can be pursued to be denied. Other Nation build "FOR THEIR PEOPLE"... and that is a stark difference from what America does. We only build for the "wealthy to engage a process of gaining more wealth at the expense of the people, the economy and the nation"
People would truly have to read about American History in the "truths that exist to be uncovered and those that have been uncovered" but not previously accessible to the masses.
America is a "GREAT SYSTEM", in "theory"... it has been "Bastardized for hundred of years by racial ignorance and plutocratic agenda, that has caused and continue to cause and create "political savagery" upon and against the working people, against the civil society, and against and upon the civic stability of city, state, and nation.; this has translated into acts of savagery damaging the monetary system of capitalism. Either we face and fix it, or we suffer the multiplex of issue that it will continue to bring upon and within the nation itself.
We need not go trekking with war aspiration to Iran or any other place in the Middle East. it is not ours to own, nor to control... any American Interest in the Region SHOULD have been built upon "fair and honest" trade agreements!!!!
No one has to continually be on attack posture and invasive manipulative acts,
except when they have not dealt from a premise of "fair play"; and we have not... we've put our interest as being more important than the interest of others in the world. That promotes conflict by the simple premise of such mentality. It also puts us at a great disadvantage, because the delusion of superiority, makes us inferior in the ability to learn from and with others.
