What will the ME do if the world grows a pair and gets oil elsewhere? A small shift would cause the ruling government to change their tune. No more money availible to steal, err.... I mean make.....(sarcasm = off)
By all means, let all the Americans and other Westerners leave Saudi Arabia. The whole place will shut down within six weeks, and they'll be begging us back. Why, you ask? Because work is beneath the lofty Saudis, and everything the least bit technical is done by outsiders. Wait and see....
WEst should have seized all the Mideast ands NAfrica Oil Field back when these thieves started the Nationalizing BS
If an al-Qaeda objective is to drive us out of Saudi Arabia, then they have largely succeeded. Our troops are out, our expats are leaving or gone and energy contracts are going increasingly to non-coalition entities.