[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Much of this post is true. However, there is another side of the coin. Saudi Arabia and the USA have had a close relationship since the 1930s and 40s when ARAMCO (five US oil companies in partnership) discovered oil in Eastern Province after European oil companies had declined. The Saudi’s felt that the USA was preferable to the Europeans, since there was a history of colonialism in the Middle East.
The Saudis (I speak of the Royal family) will continue to support the USA in two areas, commercial (selling their oil to us) and military (a counterweight to Iran). Sure, the country’s predominant sect is Wahabism, which does create some extremists. Sure, the country does not support Israel. At this point, only Jordan and Egypt have a tenuous peace with Israel.
The Saud family does have its problems, just as did the Shah of Iran, but what replaced him was 100 times worse. This is most likely true of the Saud family.

[Max in Utah]

The Saudis have given billions of dollars of money they made from US to establish madrassas, all over the world, that teach young muslims that Israel and America must be destroyed. They have sent out imams to preach the message of wahabbism and teach their flocks to hate us and wish us dead.

They are intellectually and spiritually, heads and tails, committed to our destruction.

That's the coin I recognize.

[Lurker]

This is most likely true of the Saud family.

Who's talking about eliminating the Royal Family alone? I'm not. SA is a wahhabi hotbed. Just eliminate everybody but the foreign workers.

Then let Standard Oil back in there to run the fields.

No wahabbis, no more wahabbi problems.

L

[semaj]

"The Saudis (I speak of the Royal family) will continue to support the USA in two areas, commercial (selling their oil to us) and military (a counterweight to Iran)."

I agree with the first part of your assessment, the second part is highly questionable. The Saudi "military" being a counterweight against Iranian military adventurism in the region is laughable. The only real military force that acts as any type of counterweight to both Iranian and Syrian proclivities to military mischief is the nation of Israel.

I worked in Saudi Arabia fro a while and have witnessed up close the Saudi military. A more motley, undiscplined and pampered bunch of pansies you'll never find. I used to comment that the Israeli's could fly across Saudi airspace unhindered on their way to Tehran 24/7 for fear of garnering their "attention."