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Sleeping with the Devil
- How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
- By: Robert Baer
- Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia. Nominally based on a "harmony of interests" - the Saudis sold their oil to the American government very inexpensively - what we offered in exchange has damaged our position in the Middle East and left our country vulnerable to economic and terrorist threats. Baer goes behind the scenes to show how the US willingly overlooked the corruption of the Saudi royal family, its financing of violent Islamic fundamentalist groups, and its bribery of American officials.
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Ouch. The truth hurts.
- By Kevin Christy on 07-28-03
- Sleeping with the Devil
- How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
- By: Robert Baer
- Narrated by: Robert O'Keefe
SHOULD BE MANDATORY READING FOR EVERYONE
Reviewed: 07-01-07
This book hits the nail on the head and is a wake up call to us all of the dangers looming in the sands of Arabia. Dangers, which if not checked, will certainly overshadow the horror of 9/11. Americans will certainly not be hapopy to learn of the cozy relationship of their leaders with the Saudis, bankers for world terror, and how US national interest continues to take second place to the individual greed of American leaders as well as those of their Saudi bedfellows. But I fear that Americans will do nothing until it is too late. An all too often symptom in the American people.
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