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2005-11-17 Arabia

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-17 09:18|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Regards maintenance, the standard "insh'allah" doesn't generate much confidence in the pilots, lol, so they have to get expats to do the work - or the pilots, who are, indeed, connected with mucho wasta, refuse to fly. The Magic Kingdom is one seriously screwed up place, lol.

Posted by .com 2005-11-17 09:29|| 2005-11-17 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 That is the reason most dictatorship/theocracy militaries suck. Loyalty to the state/monarchy/party comes before anything else and the result is piss poor performance from the military.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-11-17 09:40|| 2005-11-17 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, I was expecting a punchline to a joke.

Posted by Jomoque Ebbeart6983 2005-11-17 09:53|| 2005-11-17 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 During Gulf I, a Saudi pilot got two Iraqis in the same dogfight. He was flying an F15.

He was also a Bedouin, not one of the Family bunch, considered like a hillbilly. He must have made it by skill.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2005-11-17 09:56|| 2005-11-17 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and Allan knows best.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-11-17 10:09|| 2005-11-17 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 As one who spent eight months in the Magic Kingdom back in 1992, I can tell you that the above article applies to nearly every aspect of the Saudi economy, i.e., without the ex-pats, the Soddies cannot make it beyond the tent.

Posted by The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-11-17 10:20|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-11-17 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Have many of those ex-pats who fled after the housing complexes were attacked by Al Qaeda returned? Or have the Phillipino and Indian engineers been promoted?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-11-17 14:02|| 2005-11-17 14:02|| Front Page Top

#8 The Soodi who got the Iraqis did so guided by a US AWACS, with a flight of US aircraft backing him up.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-11-17 14:06|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-11-17 14:06|| Front Page Top

#9 #2: That is the reason most dictatorship/theocracy militaries suck. Loyalty to the state/monarchy/party comes before anything else and the result is piss poor performance from the military.

Ummm, I don't recall any World War 2 stories about the germans being shitty fighters, or the Japanese.

That's one Dictatorship and one Monarchy against your theory.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-11-17 14:25|| 2005-11-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

#10
Redneck Jim:"Ummm, I don't recall any World War 2 stories about the germans being shitty fighters, or the Japanese."

He said:"...dictatorship/theocracy...".

It probably would have been less confusing for you had he said theocratic dictatorship.

You think?

TV-Man

Posted by TV-Man 2005-11-17 15:30|| 2005-11-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

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