If anyone is wondering why the Saudis fear an attack, we have to ignore everything western journalists are focusing on. This is a religious battle, and they keeping their eyes closed about that. This is pure islam playing out, most especially, ISIS is an apocolyptic group. Muslims have their own end of the world prophecies, and unlike Christianity, where we wait for the coming of the end, muslims must act in order to bring it about. This is what ISIS thinks it is doing, bringing about the apocalypse. Part of bringing about the apocolypse is the prophecy that Mecca and the Kaaba will be destroyed by muslims. ISIS has promised to do just that.
ISIS is a relatively primitive force. It is dependent upon the roads as it line of communications to keep supplied and maneuver its forces. ISIS is largely unable to move its forces overland away from the road system. ISIS doesn’t have an air force or logistics organization. If it tries to attack Saudi Arabia it will be in a world of hurt — particularly if the Saudi forces are reinforced by Egyptian and/or Pakistani forces.
My assessment is that ISIS will be looking for weaker targets for a long time.
The hajyra is about to be Duke Nukem’d.
The House of Saud is about to fall.
Obammmy must be having whip fits.It is ‘resident Obama who unleashed the dragon by invading Libya,which resulted in Ghadaffi being sodomized and murdered on video, an unacceptable, undeserved fate for a then US ally, who was greening the Libyan desert. How do you like it now Hussein Obama? The House of Saud wishes that you had never kissed the ring of the king, you dribbling idiot!
Obama is nothing more than a utopian, liberal fascist slob. Good riddance to him!
Am I wrong to think that Soetoro will aid ISIS any way he can?
Yet, if ISIS in fact goes after the two Holy Cities, it should inspire every single good Muslim on the face of the earth to act against ISIS.
Yep, and this article goes along with a you tube video I recently watched that enlightened me about what you just said. Basically it was one of those “end times” vids where they explained why Saudi Arabia is Mystery Babylon, and gave some history of the geography/nations in biblical times and I believe it stated the anti-christ would come out of Turkey (seat of Satan is there)
The presence of U.S. Troops in Saudi Arabia (literally the Muslim Mecca) is one of the irritants cited by Osama bin Laden. The Egyptians and Pakistanis work cheap, and they are Islamic. The Saudis still buy their hardware from the U.S. because U.S. companies (if not the government) are far more reliable and honest than other offerers, and their goods are generally superior and no more costly. The S300 may be cheaper than Patriot, but the Russians are shifty and difficult to deal with, and the S300 only offers comparable performance on paper.
The threat is not that of a conventional attack. Who knows how much support ISIS has among the Saudi population or within the army?
Hmm. 4 or 5 years ago Saudi Arabia awarded a multi billion dollar border security contact. I remember because a friend works for a US company that bid on it and lost. (Friend was bummed because he might have gotten in on it, promotion, etc) So here we are, years later and what do they have to show for it? Apparently not much since they are having to ask for foreign troops to help with border security.
All those brave Saudi princes who hired the US to defend them from Saddam and made our people hide their Bibles can be totally on their own now as far as I am concerned.
Would you send them if they did ask?
Saudi Arabia is all in with the US funding, training and arming the “Syrian rebels” to overthrow Assad. They created the monster ISIS that threatens to destroy them. Wouldn’t it be smarter if those that created this mess helped Syria defeat ISIS?
“I am rather ambivalent about losing Saudi Arabia as a “friend,”
I’m not ambivalent at all. The Opecker Princes have brought about economic mysery to America with its oil games and pricing since the 1960’s.
How many hate America liberals and so called economic terrorists have they financed from Jimmy Carter to Clintoon to Obozo.
The Opecker pro Wahabi Princes have hated America and caused loss of lives for decades.
Let them and Isis destroy each other.
ISIS in action...