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OK SOCAL ....Thge Saudi Royal family is friendly to the USA..they are the only friends we got in Saudi....Saudi Society is very very Conservative, and is the main source of money for the Fundlementalist Mosques throughout the world..

Most of the countries in the ME are on the Conservative side...but the ruling class is what keeps the fundlementalists in check.

Second point about Buchanan spouting a Liberal line.....verily verily....Back in the day when I was a lowly student at the U of C I had a Proffessor by the name of Jorge Nef....Nef was close enough to the Allende government that when Allende was assinated the Chilean government wanted Nef back....The CIA it was rumored was putting pressure of the UC system to get rid of Nef....So U might say Nef was a Communist ...Shortly after I took his class Nef went to McGill in Montreal..the research that Nef was doing was on Multinational Corporations...and basically what has come to pass in the past 30 years with regards to Globalization of the economy...Isn't it ironic that such a RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE as Buchanan is spouting such a LEFTIST POV 20 years later....Oh how things come full circle.

And your right..many many Conservatives wouldn't know which side of the bed to get out of either, if it weren't for a Talking Head...pity really...