Saudi Arabia is not a friend. Not even semi. They wish us ill, they want to access our military power, they want to access our political clout to help wahhbist Sunnis dominate islam.
They are nothing like a friend and do nothing for us. It is only one way. And Sunni terror puts Shiite to shame. Its not even close.
The Saudis have bee fiends for a long time..
We currently operate out of 5 AF bases there and stage many SF operations out of there. In addition, a drone flown from there was used in September 2011 to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric who was AQAP’s external operations chief.