[arthurus]

The Jihadis do not need the oil to run a 9th century society. And cutting off the oil will be a material defeat for the West that will wreck the Western economies. The West will recover with the coasts and ANWR opened up suddenly for oil and new nuke plants building but it will take 5-10 years and in the meantime we will be fighting a harder war.

[91B]

If we cut off the source of funds-western money buying Saudi oil-the jihadniks will not be able to export terrorism as easily. Besides, the unstated point of my post is that if the fundamentalists were in charge, they would run the KSA into the ground pretty quickly and get themselves ousted in pretty short order (probably replaced by a more pro-western government).