[xzins]

This is a trick question, right?

Is our backstabbing Mid-Eastern, kill a few here, kill a few there, "ally," a Friend?

Vampire is no friend.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

They are an oil supplier and an enemy. They receive special treatment because the State Department is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi. Anyone want to guess how many former State Department officials are on the Saudi payroll either directly or indirectly?