I would go further and say they, especially the Gulf states, were actively backing and financing ISIS. I think the West is taking the wrong side in this Islamic civil war.
It was the Saudi sunnis who attacked the US in 9/11, it was the sunnis who led the insurgency against the US in Iraq, Iran, on the other hand, hasn’t been a threat to the West in a quarter of a century or more.
I agree with Kissinger’s belief that it’s a pity they both can’t lose but the idea that the theocratic medieval backward sand kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the friend of the West beggars belief in my book.
FYI....
The Theodore Roosevelt Attack Group will be transiting the Suez Canal next week and then right through the Strait on their way to the Persian Gulf..
Could get interesting......