Saudi Arabia certainly has competing factions within its royal family government, and some of them seem to have close...ahem, financial...ties to many American politicians. Since declaring war on the whole country would have seriously messed up a lot of GOP campaign coffers, we instead played the old game of "Let's pretend there are moderates in Saudi Arabia who can help us hunt Al Qaeda."
Well said!
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Another illuminating book on the Saudi cover-up is “Sleeping with the Devil” by Robert Baer. He writes, “So what do the Saudis have on the President, or the State Department? . . . It’s what I call a consent of silence, or, more politely deference. . . It all begins with fast money, a category in which I include cheap oil. . . With the national capitol addicted to fast money and cheap oil, complaining about {Saudi Arabia’s influence] was considered bad form, like pissing in the village well. . . The only people willing to tell the truth were on the political fringe, and they were smugly dismissed as cranks.” (pg. 36-37) The next chapter, appropriately, is about Washington’s [Saudi] 401(k) Plan.