Princess Reem Al-Faisal of the Saudi Royal family has her say about the United States' invasion of Iraq, here are some excerpts:
"How dare America look the rest of the world in the face, when it refuses even to admit or ask forgiveness from just these people it has so wronged."It is time for the American nation to acknowledge its crimes and apologize and ask forgiveness from the many people it has harmed. Beginning with the Native Americans, followed by the Africans and South Americans, right through to the Japanese, who have suffered such horror by being the only race to know the true meaning of weapons of mass destruction.
Our foreign policy is not winning any admirers, and this comes from a member of the ruling family (which should be anathema to us) of an alleged ally. The rhetoric about apologizing to everyone on Earth is a bit much, as there are plenty of apologies owed by many nations to many other nations, minorities and women as a group. Nevertheless, Americans should be wide awake to the fact that even our "friends" have an escalated sense of distrust of us, which hurts geopolitically and economically.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at October 8, 2003 11:07 AM | TrackBack