The Tale of the Three Princesses

Passengers clapped and whistled as three princess from the family of Quatar’s Emir were escorted off a British Airways flight from Milan, when they refused to sit next to men they didn’t know.

OK, you’re travelling on public transportation (in Business Class) and you want others to have to move and split their traveling parties so you don’t have to sit next to an unfamiliar person? Sorry, not a good reason. But thank you ladies for once again showing that these people, as Western-loving as can seem to be (they were on a one-day shopping trip) aren’t Westerners. They are not our friends.

One of the more interesting aspects of the state of our world today, is how we seem to think that Arabs of any kind are friends of America. They are not. As in the case of Saudi Arabia, they may sell us oil and help keep the price down, but don’t forget the oil companies that pump and process Saudi oil were owned by U.S. companies until the Saudi government nationalized (stole) them (okay, threatened to nationalize them until they were granted tax breaks that led to their gaining control of the company – very slick operators). Why would we think Quatar is any more our friend than Saudi Arabia, where 19 of the 9/11 hijackers came from?

My only question? Why were these princesses flying via British Airlines? All the Quatar Royal 747s already engaged?

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