They really have no army to protect their petroleum and natural gas resources, so they hire foreigners to do that.
When we were over there they had RAE DIK DAE LIM, South Korean regular army who worked in construction jobs as well.
Their living compound announced their station in life: it was SPOTLESS. They even had painted the rocks WHITE that were used to show the perimeters of their camp.
The Saudi government also held death sentences (head chopping) on Friday mornings. We actually had one in our local town. We COULD HAVE gone to observe it but we passed on it. The guy getting executed, a Saudi, had committed murder.
The Iranians are interesting. They are NOT Arabs and they hold their noses up at all Arabs. The Arabs USED to be some of God's poorest people on earth. NOW, however, they have all the money in the world.
The Iranians still hold up their noses because they are NOT Arabs.
Lol. Little do they know that most Westerners lump all those "middle easterners" together...and not in a nice way.
I certainly hope we never spend another American life protecting their miserable hides.