Where in the hell do you think our fighter jets and support personnel were stationed for the 13 years we were enforcing the "no-fly zones" in Northern and Southern Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1991 and prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003?
The Saudi Governmnent has been very cooperative in the WOT. Like Pakistan, it is a portion of their citizenship that is the problem.
It was the presence of these "infidel" US troops at Prince Sultan Air Base in the Holy Land of Saudi Arabia that bin Laden cited as one of the reasons he ordered the 9/11 attacks.
There are grave problems with the rank and file in Saudi Arabia, but the government of Saudi Arabia has been staunch US allies for 30 years.
I don't agree with it, but the money does at least go back into US companies and workers. With the money that S.A. is making at almost $80 a barrel the least they could do is give up a few days profits and pay for their own weapons though, that is just wrong to give them more money than we are now.