<story><title>Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women</title><url>http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>&quot;Women under male custody&quot;. Wow. I hadn&apos;t realized Saudi Arabia is so primitive. If the US Government is going to send them billions in aid (to buy weapons from US companies, and therefor indirectly subsidize them), can&apos;t it influence some of these decisions? Or does it prefer it when it&apos;s run by dictators?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arjunnarayan</author><text>The United States sends them billions of dollars worth of arms, surveillance tech and other tools to oppress the Saudi populace. It does this (and has done this for many decades now) in order to keep the oil flowing.&lt;p&gt;In other words, it props up an illegitimate dictatorial family, and in turn they keep the oil flowing at a fairly stable and cheap price.&lt;p&gt;And now you wonder why young Sauds who are oppressed by this situation hate the United States? The people&apos;s oil is taken out of the ground by an illegitimate government propped up by the people who buy the oil at what they perceive to be below the fair price.&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake, the source of the problem is the United States.</text></comment>
<story><title>Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women</title><url>http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/22/saudi-arabia-implements-electronic-tracking-system-for-women/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mtgx</author><text>&quot;Women under male custody&quot;. Wow. I hadn&apos;t realized Saudi Arabia is so primitive. If the US Government is going to send them billions in aid (to buy weapons from US companies, and therefor indirectly subsidize them), can&apos;t it influence some of these decisions? Or does it prefer it when it&apos;s run by dictators?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zalew</author><text>You&apos;d be very surprised to notice how often locals give less of a crap about stuff that enrages the western blogger crowd, or how many non-Americans don&apos;t share the feeling US needs to stick their nose into every other country&apos;s internal affairs.&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t be fooled, if the US didn&apos;t care their BFF Pahlavi murdered and tortured Iranians, you shouldn&apos;t expect they care about women rights or whatever in SA.</text></comment>