Completely not the reason they declined the seat. Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to know their “true motivations” in the Middle East conflicts their involved in. They play both sides like a fiddle.
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Exactly. They keep their friends close, and their enemies even closer.
The Muslim Brotherhood cuts into the Saudi’s business, which is spreading Wahhabism.
There are more than enough petrodollars floating around the gulf to hire a mercenary army to push any change in Syria which Saudi Arabia really wants.
We're not even sure at this point if they want Assad in or out.
On one hand, he is close to Hezbollah and Iran, traditional enemies of Wahhabi's. On the other, Assad is fighting the same Al Qaida factions which also have the Saudi royal family in their cross-hairs.