Kerry has already said that Arab money is available for the USA if we take out Assad.
What if OPEC is threatening to abandon the US dollar for the oil markets? Once they pull this card out of the house of cards, the gig is up. Imagine the US dollar no longer the dominant world currency.
Then we get our idiots in congress to build the dam pipeline and go with domestic oil and the Saudis gig is up.
It was our technology that brought them oil and without our purchase and refining capabilities they’d be back shaking their cups for coins. There is no reason to be held hostage by people barely a step above Neanderthals.