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Dec 14, 2007

US Saudi Relations Timeline

by Cliopatria

I didn't watch the movie, The Kingdom, but these opening credits are certainly an intriguing use of historical timeline. They present US/Saudi Arabia relations in re: to Oil and radical Wahabbi ideology. There is much to process here ... at least, one key event is missing from that overview ... but the knowledge that this was all in service of a pretty maudlin blow-em-up is kinda depressing.

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Jonathan Dresner - 12/15/2007

"Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away...."

Same thing, but better editing.

What's really depressing, honestly, is that this much context is necessary for contemporary watchers.