Posted on 06/18/2016 4:38:11 PM PDT by Lorianne
The Saudi prince who seems to have won a family power struggle is meeting with U.S. officials this week -- some of them the same officials who are concerned his reign could be ruinous and hurt the regional security U.S. officials crave.
Officials in the national security establishment believe Saudi Arabia is at a crossroads, and that if the prince doesn't succeed, now and later as king, there could be chaos in the Kingdom. "It's him or it's ISIS," said one Saudi expert who asked that his name not be used.
Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's 30-year-old deputy crown prince, is on a tour of the U.S. that will include New York and Silicon Valley. His biggest meetings are with top U.S. officials in Washington, D.C., this week, including Secretary of State Kerry on Monday and a scheduled visit with President Obama at the White House Friday morning.
But the big news, suggest U.S. officials, is that bin Salman is here at all, since he's technically second-in-line to his father King Salman's throne. He seems to have gained the upper hand on his cousin and rival Mohammed Bin Nayef, the crown prince and a longtime U.S. favorite. The trip is essentially a state visit without the fanfare.
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William Arkin is an old-line leftist who specialized in exposing US reported nuclear weapons depots in foreign countries.
You can read about him and his radical connections including the Marxist funded, directed and KGB/Soviet “Anti-Defense Lobby” in S. Steve Powell’s master-work, “Cover Cadre, Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”, Green Hill Publishers, 1987.
If there is any “reporter” you should not trust, it is Arkin.
In a sane America, he would have been tried and convicted of treason, and would still be in jail.
Good!
The Sows can bite me.
The only reason people out side of the USA want dollars is because the Saudis only accept US dollars for their oil. If the house of Saud goes down it takes the US dollar with it. You can thank Tricky Dick for that.
Is Saudi “too big to fail” and in line for our financial support?????
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The administrations only concern is expanding the influence of the Brotherhood. They were almost successful in Egypt
And Then What Happens?
Well, we could blow them up, as we should have in the first place.
HEY!
You appear to be one of those “republicans” for Hillary
And Then What Happens?
3 small simple questions that should always be asked and answered before actions are taken
1. What Do You Want?
2. How Do You Get It?
3.And Then What Happens?
The end of terrorism.
2. How Do You Get It?
By going to the source, killing them and seizing their assets.
3. And Then What Happens?
We secure the area and promise the same to all terrorist countries.
“2. How Do You Get It?
By going to the source, killing them and seizing their assets.
3. And Then What Happens?
We secure the area and promise the same to all terrorist countries.”
And the 1.6 Billion Muslims will....?
Think.
Subsequently whack out and also get vaporized?
See question #1.
Evidence for this is ample. Consider the textbooks Saudi Arabia uses in its own classrooms. A 2006 diplomatic cable, published by WikiLeaks, indicated that an eighth-grade textbook says, “God will punish any Muslim who does not literally obey God just as God punished some Jews by turning them into pigs and monkeys.”
Jubeir conceded that such textbooks have become more radical in recent years. He said many of his middle-age colleagues at the embassy don't remember this kind of thing, but conceded that it was an issue that the government should have paid more mind.
David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, told me that in this respect, the Saudis have not lived up to a 2014 communique its leaders signed with the U.S. to combat radical and extremist ideologies. “The Saudi government will point out that they are terrorism's first victims,” Weinberg said. “But just because they are a target of the group, does not mean their policies are all judicious in this regard, some of their incitement feeds into terrorism in the peninsula.”
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