You reap what you sow. Post bin Laden al Qaeda was a Saudi financed Sunni international fighting force that the Saudis deployed in Syria and Iraq. They had hoped to establish an Arabic speaking Sunni state composed of large parts of Syria and Iraq to oppose Iran. IS evolved from this creation and
soon it became apparent that the Saudis had lost control. What’s more the barbaric IS jihadists view themselves as better custodians of Islam’s holy sites and the oil beneath them. The jihadists have little regard or use for the “Saudi royal family”. That is why King Abdullah is begging Obama to act against IS despite Obama’s ambivalence about ordering white Christian infidel pilots to bomb dark skinned Muslims.The irony is that despite the hundreds of advanced jet aircraft in the Saudi air force, they have not flown one sortie against ISIS.
Wish for once we’d tell the Saudis, ‘Sorry son, you’re on your own.’ I’m sick of the US military serving as the Saudis’ errand boy.