The Saudi's can deal with Iran. They've purchased tens of billions of planes and weapons through us, let them spill their own blood protecting their oil.
No more American blood should ever be spilled in the Middle East, IMO.
Concurring bump...although I doubt KSA could beat Iran without American boots on the ground.
Funny. All of Islam has said it will attack us if anything happens to Medina and Mecca but what will they do when Iranian tanks roll into them?
The rest of my quote was omitted for some unknown reason, so to correct the record, I said "No more American blood should ever be spilled in the Middle East, IMO. The exception being Israel." Why Israel? They're the only democratically elected government in the Middle East and our ally.
Now to address your post: you think KSA cannot beat Iran without American boots on the ground.
Should it ever come to pass that KSA were engaged in war with Iran, there's no way in hell the US Government would let Iran win. Let's be clear about that. Whether that means boots on the ground I have my doubts, superior firepower and bombing from above I'd place my bets on.
Iran has attempted to provoke KSA, America and anyone else who's a Saudi oil consumer (directly) through their drone attacks. That KSA is going to be back online so quickly should tell Iran that it's going to take a lot more than some drones to knock KSA offline for a meaningful period of time.
And if that were to happen, I suspect Iran would rue the day they attacked Saudi Arabia. I'd bet we have more than air superiority up our sleeves and have well probed Iran's cyber security and can plunge the entire country into darkness with the push of a button very quickly.
As I work for a large multi-national bank, we've directly seen the best Iran's cyber-attacks have to offer and we've withstood them all. The FBI and other Intelligence agencies have collected tons of data on Iran's cyber-attack facilities as a result, their methods and more. Trust me: Iran doesn't want the United States of America knocking down their cyber-defenses like an empty coca-cola bottle and running roughshod over their public utilities and turning their defense systems against them.
It'll happen.