Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria

Daily Mail UK ^ | 19:27 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 19:27 EST, 22 October 2013 | Staff

[redgolum]

The Saudi’s thought that their mercs would go into another war for them. Except that round three (four?) was declined by the American people.

[bert]

Conservatives in general and FReepers in specific should be praising the Saudi’s. The King (and Bandar) refused a seat on the security council. They very loudly told the world that the Security Council is a farce and they see no reason to waste the time and money on the fools errand. By extrapolation, the entire UN is shown to be farcical.

What has happened is that the feckless Obama has abandoned the coalition seeking to overthrow Assad and by extension contain Iran. While many put the coalition down as American coat holders while America fights, that is not altogether true.

The Saudi, Qatari and Turkish military are almost certainly involved on the ground in Syria. They are now free of the burden of vacillation by American military officers and CIA operators who were on the Obama leash and were actually ineffective in getting anything much done.

Now that they are free to act as they see fit, they can go forward.

The fact the Saudi’s have come out of the closet so to speak is a major happening. The GCC doesn’t have a boss like the EU but it can be assumed that when the Saudi government speaks the voice of the GCC and perhaps the entire coalition is being heard.

[JediJones]

[bert]

That is the popular belief but it is not precisely correct.

The fact is, the war in Syria would likely be over were it not for the vacuous floundering of Barack Obama. It was the American lack of leadership and simultaneous insistence on appeasement that is the root problem

[M Kehoe]

Even after our leader 0bama, bowed to king Faisal in submission? I don't get it. Must be a bunch of ingrates in the house of Saud.

5.56mm

[cynwoody]

That's the wrong finger, Prince Bandar. Just watch the Won.

[JediJones]

[Olog-hai]

We haven’t had diplomatic ties with Iran since 1980 and there hasn’t been any formal war yet.

Of course, al-Reuters is specious, but I agree that the Daily Mail ought not compound it.

[DCBryan1]

Dont worry. Jay Carney will, tommorrow, call it a “GLITCH”.

[huldah1776]

So if Reagan had acted when our Marines and other service members in Beirut had died, none of this would be going on? Rules, Rules, Rules of Engagement.

[PieterCasparzen]

Conservatives in general and FReepers in specific should be praising the Saudi’s.

...

The Saudi, Qatari and Turkish military are almost certainly involved on the ground in Syria. They are now free of the burden of vacillation by American military officers and CIA operators who were on the Obama leash and were actually ineffective in getting anything much done.

IMHO, most FReepers that are aware of globalism are anti-globalist, i.e., anti-new world order. The effort to overthrow Assad is a new world order operation, just like the rest of the "arab spring" was.

[Innovative]

More articles now:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=saudi&oq=saudi&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0i3j0l7j43i53.3828.4540.0.5095.5.4.0.1.1.0.81.268.4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.flxmoZhpx58

[Innovative]

Israel and Saudi Arabia are coordinating policies to counter US détente with Iran

http://www.debka.com/article/23323/

“Associates of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Wednesday, Oct. 2, leaked word to the media that high-ranking Gulf emirate officials had recently visited Israel, signaling a further widening in the rift between Israel and President Barack Obama over his outreach to Tehran. These visits were in line with the ongoing exchanges Israel was holding with Saudi and Gulf representatives to align their actions for offsetting any potential American easing-up on Iran’s nuclear program.”

[lgjhn23]

“...Whatever happened to the anti-frackers?....”

We put them to work as truck drivers and rousabouts...LOL
Once they got a taste of making some money for a change, they forgot all about “fracking”....

As far as “hateful posts” go because of our business, all I can say is: have at it. They can heat their house with wood and newspaper, and then ride a damn bicycle in the middle of the winter. Me and my guys ride in some fine diesel pickups...LMAO.

[NFHale]

I know it very well.

[Red Badger]

It’s in Debka, so it MUST BE TRUE!.....................

[Slings and Arrows]

[2CAVTrooper]

"Instead, nuke Mecca into a glowing glass bowl. Let the muzzies rage & then bring it on." I've been saying pretty much the same thing since 9/11. The GWOT should have been "over" within 30 minutes of the first tower collapsing. Every muzzie religious site and major population center as well as known and suspected terrorist training areas, their military bases, etc should have been nuked. Tora Bora, and Khandahar would also have been on my target list. The only boots on the ground would be to mop up whoever was still alive.

[cherokee1]

That’s part of my point. Bandar has no excuses for being part of the Soddy problem and should be able to run a gov’t that doesn’t abuse his people. But he doesn’t and I believe it comes from the blind spot his family seems to have-—The whole bunch is so focused on their own comfort, etc. that they are bound to be eaten alive when the folks get mad.

I have no idea who eventually takes over but there is a high level of westernization among the young folks all over the ME, they know there’s a better way, and will eventually re-arrange the gov’t s, lockup/kill the despots, and proceed into, maybe, the 20th century. I say the 20th because most of these folks don’t have a flush toilet yet.

[bert]

Did you say new world order?

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