Posted on 01/22/2015 4:45:32 PM PST by fella
:-)
The new ruler is a salmon??
LOL, I thought that might get a rise out of you.
Remember America’s “Lonely People”? (’This is for all the lonely people, thinking that life etc.”)
Near the end of the song can be found what must be most lackluster, anemic “Hit it!” ever uttered in easy listening, southern Californian rock ‘n roll.
It isn’t an utterance so much as a breathy, barely audible “OK, we’re almost done, we can do this ...”.
It made me proud to be a white guy.
:-)
The House of Saud may not *have* the time for a long-term out look. There are forces converging on the "Magic Kingdom" as we speak. Another 'domino' was put into place earlier this week, with the Houthis gaining effective control of Yemen, directly to the south and within a short road march to the city of Mecca. They are allied with Iran, and there are Iranian naval assets already in place in the Red Sea, supporting the Houthis takeover of Yemen. This puts Iran and its allies *on both sides* of the kingdom simultaneously. This strategic advantage is *not* going to be wasted by Iran, believe me.
Were this not enough to be worrisome there is also ISIS to the north and west to consider. No love lost there either. No, things are about to get *real* interesting and the price of crude *will* be going up because there will be a conflict going on on the Arabian Peninsula in fairly short order. I give it before the year is out that this will happen, and given that Salman "isn't all there", so to speak, the odds on the House of Saud prevailing are not too good...
the infowarrior
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