re: #1 windsagio

In a weird way, it makes me willing to pay $4 dollar a gallon gas.

I really can’t think of a more evil country in the world than Saudi Arabia.

Oh? Try the People’s Republic of North Korea. Try Syria. Try Myanmar. Try Sudan. [Now, perhaps, called North Sudan].

If you allow for a wider time window than “right now”, places such as Uganda, Central African Republic, and Serbia come to mind.

Saudi Arabia has the vices characteristic of the idle rich, joined to the vices of the fundamentalist. The place has, in other words, merely the faults that are just about inevitable given its circumstances. Saudi Arabia hasn’t exerted itself to master new faults. All those other places named above have stacked the bodies high.