Quote:I may be missing something here but how is suing Saudi Arabia going to work? And what grounds do they have to do so? I actually agree with him that it wouldn't do anything to protect this nation from further attacks or make a difference in our response to any future attacks.


And do we really want this to happen? We really, really do not want these to be a possibility.....
He warned that the law would hurt the effectiveness of the administration's action against terrorism by taking questions of foreign states' involvement in terrorism "out of the hands of national security and foreign policy professionals and placing them in the hands of private litigants and courts."


Obama also said the move would open Americans abroad, especially those serving in the military, to prosecutions by foreign countries, since this would remove the reciprocal agreements that now protect both sides from such lawsuits.


I understand the families of the victims feel this would bring some kind of closure, but it will only open a nasty can of worms that will never be able to be closed and will be very detrimental to the US. Can you imagine the lawsuits that could happen from victim's families of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Fresh hell.....