The speaker says 9/11 and Saudi human-rights abuses damaged U.S.-Saudi relations, making it harder for Saudi Arabia to get America to fight Iran.
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The speaker says 9/11 and Saudi human-rights abuses damaged U.S.-Saudi relations, making it harder for Saudi Arabia to get America to fight Iran.
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"The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need..."
"...Saudi Arabia. Americans also knew that there were a lot of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. The other thing that happened is in..."
"...cold and they are like, no, no, no, China is terrible, human rights, this and that. And then, I think that all these Western..."
"...can't do this. It's suicidal. Why is it suicidal? Because the human rights couldn't survive, right? It'd be idiotic to do something like this..."
"...paid $80 million to be this stupid. Okay? So this is Human Rights First, an organization that start to interview these prisoners of America...."
"...is about the international rules -based order. Okay? The United Nations, human rights, the Geneva Convention, all these things. Okay? It's what they call..."
"...property, security, and resistance of oppression. Okay? These are the fundamental human rights. All government, all laws, all society must be based on these..."
"...tradition of asking deep questions about what it means to be human right does"
"...Western civilization preaches the gospel of liberal democracy, of freedom, of human rights, of consumerism. And these are all lies. They're hypocrisies. They have..."
"...Exactly. Okay. You. Are. You. As. A. Person. Cease. To. Be. Human. Right. To. A. Human. Is. To. A. Complex."
"...Shah, the king of Iran, to stand trial for all his human rights crimes while he was king of Iran. Okay? That's the first..."
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