Oh and the Kurds or any Muslim for that matter I would never supply a weapon to. They have proven time and time again to be untrustworth. For well over a eon they have tried to kill anyone who does not kneel down to them if they thought they could get away with it.
Your time in Saudi Arabia was a protect time because they knew they needed you. The time may come when they may attack us. Just look at where the 9-11 attackers mostly came from.
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Your time in Saudi Arabia was a protect time because they knew they needed you.
True enough. They simply DO NOT have the population to produce enough engineers and such to EVER be on their own.
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The time may come when they may attack us.
TRUE also, but not while petroleum is $95.00/barrel and we, the "West" are the largest consumers of that petroleum.
My husband worked in their LNG plants, as they used to BURN OFF their natural gas. Their country looked like a Christmas tree at night. FINALLY, someone with brains figured out how to capture the gas, LIQUIFY it, bottle it in huge thick metal containers, store it and ship it to the world.
Also, the American oil men first went there in the 1920's so the business arrangement between the two nations is of LONG standing and won't be easily broken because of a few malcontents. The Saudis LIKE having their wealth.
It's made them a whole lot healthier because they now have TOP NOTCH medical care. Their lives are markedly better with better food, water, mosquito abatement, doctors, education...just everything.
One of the national "stats" over there was that way BACK WHEN, before the American oil men came in, there was 100% occurrence of malaria in Saudi Arabia. EVERYONE had malaria to some extent.
The company sprayed with all the DDT outlawed throughout the planet and FINALLY the kingdom was malaria-free...the first time EVER in their history.
That changed BACK again when the companies started bringing in CHEAPER labor from East Africa. Those workers had malaria, to some extent, and their blood RE-INFECTED the healthy Saudi mosquitoes.
When WE went there we had to get SHOTS for everything, even a POLIO booster.
****Yes, they may attack us, but they are a PATHETICALLY small nation with NO combat experience, weapons or soldiers. What jet fighters they have were bought from us. What training their pilots have is from us.
WHY would they make war on their GOLDEN GOOSE, with whom they've been friends for almost 100 years?
TRUE STORY: My husband and I went to the Najmah (Saudi Arabia) camp gate to pick up a Pakistani (Thanksgiving) dinner guest. The ONE Saudi guard, guarding the ENTIRE ARAMCO camp, had one of his boots off and was picking his feet with his bayonet.
There WERE more guards at the refinery, which abutted our camp to the northeast.
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Just look at where the 9-11 attackers mostly came from.
True enough
They were all Saudis who were denied entrance to EVERY Muslim country they tried to enter, even Pakistan, which never, ever listens to anyone and does EXACTLY what IT wants to do.
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The KSA will run out of petroleum in about 200 years. THEN, they will have, they hope, an educated population that can deal with the future with MUCH hope.