He fought extremists by letting the kingdom fund them as long they kept it out of the kingdom. He bought American congressfools left and right. He let the wahabbists spread all over America and funded all their mosque building.
Oh, and he stood for every antithesis of the US Constitution and the founders. He would let you be beheaded of you opened a church or synagogue in his country.
With “Pro American” guys like him, we don’t need enemies.
Yep.
For the FReepers who may not know these matters well: the Sauds and the leaders of Wahhabism have been allied for longer than we have been a country. The Sauds run the political affairs, while the Wahhabis run the the religious side, but they are for all intents and purposes inseperable. When the alliance was formed, the founder of Wahhabism extracted a promise from the founder of the Saudi dynasty to wage jihad on the unbelievers, and the alliance built on that oath stands to this day.
I'm all for saying, "Sure you can stay here, but on OUR terms only" -- i.e., we can discriminate at will and ostracize them unless they adapt to OUR freedoms. They're a scourge in this nation and every other place they've gone! They can't thrive in their own places where they enforce such barbarous rot, so they move to places that are thriving because of its absence -- and demand a place at the table. Screw that.
The Crusades happened for a reason.
The only reason Sauds remain our friends is the oil...and military co-operation when push comes to shove for our guys to act.
TAs long as they remain our “friend” we can keep iran from taking over....otherwise....Shities will have their way.