Very encouraging, but notice how extravagantly comfortable the Saudis are (and have long been) with OTHER people fighting FOR them...?
I do hope this goes off, but...I notice.
The House of Saud will fight to the last Israeli.
Yeah, it’s getting old.
The lesser and greater ‘Satans’ have new proven oil and gas reserves that render Saudi irrelevant. They were forced to come around to reality.
What it shows is the utter falsehood that the problems facing Islam and the Middle East are in anyway related to Israel and the Palestinians. They are and always have been related to the civil war within Islam between the Sunnis, in the shape of Saudi Arabia, and the Shias, in the shape of Iran.
The Saudis don’t give, and never have given, a fiddler’s frat for the Palestinians they do on the other hand care very deeply indeed about the threat to their leadership in Islam from the Shia heretics of Iran.
What is astonishing is the west and principally the United States taking sides in this civil war and taking sides with the wrong bunch.
This will not make me popular here but the fact remains that the US is backing a medieval, theocratic, corrupt, nepotistic, backward nation like Saudi Arabia, in which no dissent is permissable and where women and minority faiths have no rights against Iran a fairly modern, educated, half-decent (we’re talking about the Middle East so these things are of course relative) state in which Jews and Christians are tolerated and where women have a very great degree of freedom and which used to be a very good friend of the west.
It was Sunni Saudis who attacked the US on 911, it is the Sunnis backed by the Saudis who comprise ISIS and who were the main backers of the war against the US in Iraq and yet mind-bogglingly we have been brainwashed into believing the Saudis are our friend and the Iranians, who haven’t posed any real threat to US interests in almost thirty years, are the bad guys.
Saudi oil money buys you a lot of influence in Washington and always has done, to the extent that the US military has become a modern day force of janissaries backing the Saudi caliphate.
If Nixon could make peace with China and Reagan could make peace with Gorbachev I see no earthly reason why the US cannot reach out to the intelligent people of Iran and stop supporting the murderous freaks of Saudi Arabia.
But no, we still think in black and white and retain our ancient belief despite all evidence to the contrary that the Saudis are our friends and the Iranians are our enemies. It is truly bizarro world.