Steve Coll
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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And King Fahd's prestige and his whole place in the international defense.
System has already invested in the decision to have Americans and other forces handle this.
So it would be humiliating for them to reverse themselves on the basis of Osama bin Laden's advice.
And so he goes away.
And that's when he starts to preach with particular ardor about the
the failings of the kingdom, about the error that he now sees in their ways.
And he sees the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia as an occupation comparable to that of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
George H.W.
Bush, the father of George W.
Bush, who then invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam.
So just n to clarify, there were two George Bushes, and this was the first.
He um grew up in the oil business, uh, was a second or third generation Bush family um patrician politician, quite an effective um career, well prepared for the presidency.
liked to cultivate relationships with other world leaders and had experience of the Saudis through the oil business and had developed relations in the kingdom, which he which he then spent a lot of time uh advancing during this this war period.
These were influential uh preachers uh from um mostly from the Bereda area outside of Riyadh and no uh well known for conservative uh Islamist thought and and you know the kingdom uh then and and and to some extent still now was uh a place of Islamist discourse, debate, scholarship, writing, thinking about how the world should be ordered.
And on this topic
You can reduce it to a fairly simple proposition.
Muslims were called by God to resist the apostate Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and they expelled and weakened a superpower.
The Soviet Union was cracking up in 1990 and it was about to dissolve.
So there was lots of evidence that the Afghan war seemed like a sort of deliverance on God's will.
And here comes another superpower, also secular.
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