Saudi Arabia, US share ‘identical views’ on regional issues - Saudi FM

Arab News ^ | April 28, 2018

[DoughtyOne]

He can’t lose. Trump would love the tie. Fits right in with the Saudis too.

Smirk!

[SJackson]

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[ek_hornbeck]

The reason our government has supported the Saudi royal family is that whatever comes after them will likely make what happened in Iran look like a southern church social. Saudi Arabia is, appearances aside, very fragile. When it falls that whole area will be in bloody anarchy. The effects will be felt worldwide.

The Saudi Royals themselves are by all accounts not particularly religious. However, they stay in power by paying off fanatical Wahabbi clerics (and enforcing Sharia law that the clerics demand), who in return for money give the Saudis their blessing, or at least don't agitate for their overthrow. What the clerics then do with this money is send it abroad to sponsor mosques that radicalize Muslims elsewhere around the world. In other words, Saudi Arabia outsources extremism so that they don't have to deal with it at home.

So in a sense you're right - if the Saudi Royal family went, the Wahhabi cleric would be running things directly rather than vicariously.

[2harddrive]

The never-legally-President Hussein Obama should be TRIED for his part in these Iranian nuclear CRIMES!