You have more ignorance than a monkey can shake a stick at. I truly believe you are a troll here.
"I think they are possibly doing as they did after 9/11 when they asked us to leave and we found ourselves unable to patrol the no fly zone from Saudi airfields- and even more bizarre, betrothen to protect the royal family but not have our forces on KSA soil doing it."
They did not ask us to leave after 9/11. We continued to use Saudi airfields before the Afghan invasion, during the Afghan invasion and after the Afghan invasion. It was not until after the invasion of Iraq that we quit using Saudi airfields.
"Every President since before Carter had to be cozy with them, they were the catalyst which broke the soviet's back financially by flooding the market of world petroleum supplies."
Rubbish to the nth degree. While oil prices declined in the mid-to-late seventies, it had nothing to do with any agreement between Carter and the Saudis. World supply, via the Soviets (far east), British (North Sea), Mexico, Venezuala, US in the Gulf of Mexico and others had (in response to the Opec cartel) created new supply faster than demand. The world economy was not expanding fast enough. The Saudis kept their contribution to the supply at levels more commensurate to the late 1960s, in spite of all the new suppliers. Why? Because even though it depressed prices for all oil sellers (US oil companies as well, not just the Soviets), the Saudi huge portion of the world supply meant that it still made more than enough revenue, because Saudi light crude has one of the cheapest extraction costs. Carter had nothing to do with it. It was simple, typical Saudi greed.
While this hurt the Soviets economically, for a little while, the inability to compete with the Reagan military buildup later, in the 1980s is what finally bankrupted them. No thanks to Carter who had been lowering our military profile.
"It was not until after the invasion of Iraq that we quit using Saudi airfields."
Bullsh*t. We were out of our main air force facility long before OIF. The Saudis did in fact request we leave.
"Rubbish to the nth degree. While oil prices declined in the mid-to-late seventies, it had nothing to do with any agreement between Carter and the Saudis. "
I never said it did, did I? Are you denying that the Carter library was built partially with a huge endowment by the Royal family?
The price manipulation happened during the Reagan years.
"While this hurt the Soviets economically, for a little while, the inability to compete with the Reagan military buildup later, in the 1980s is what finally bankrupted them."
WELL NO SHER SH*TLOCK. The price of one of their leading export commodities plummeting didn't help much, eh?