First, you have to try to put yourself into the gold-plated shoes of the Saudi Royal family. They're fat, ultra-rich cowards. Their hold on their country is tenuous at best due to their repressiveness, rampant nepotism, and hoarding of the oil-rich nation's wealth. The U.S. made them. We found their oil while they were wandering the deserts shooting sh*t-eating lizards for dinner. We drilled for it. We pumped it. We built pipelines to transport it. We built the refineries. We provided the ships to get it out.
We protected them with OUR national treasure; our military, our boys and young ladies, OUR equipment, OUR cost when a**holes like Hussein would have overrun their pathetically weak butts in a day or two.
No, we're the only thing keeping them from utter mayhem, and as stupid, cowardly, ungrateful, and backstabbing as they are..........they're not total idiots.
With all that said, it wouldn't break my heart one little bit to tell them to "respectfully, f**k off" and pull out en masse. Then, we watch 'em fall to internal forces or Hussein or........whoever. THEN, we come back in and clean house and take over that freakin' lake of oil that they're floating atop.
Same here. They're good for nothing, but surely not THAT stupid.
Exactly my thoughts.
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