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The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this would be a GREAT move on the US's part. I know alot of really smart people that are still in the military and I this can only hope that the SAMs grads at Leavenworth came up with this option.It is BRILLANT. Kuwait is a feint ... the Turkish Army on the borders of SA and Iran (NOT US soldiers...) .... cheap Turkish oil .... I bet SA starts listening to us then.

After reading a little more history, I think I've regained my perspective. What we have here is a people who, until recently, have never known autonomy. What is now Saudi Arabia was for a very long time a land of simple nomads effectively managed by local Turkish magistrates. Turkish Ottaman rule, temporarily restrained by English American design, may be back in ascension. Would it be a bad thing to revert control of what was theirs for so long. Talking about everything from the Lebanese Mediterranean to the Eastern Arabian coastal town of Riyadh. The Saudis have been pretty poor custodians of the wealth and comfort America has granted them. Right??

But then I splash cold water on my face and neck, open this web page and realize everything said here is so far off the chart out in neocon land that unless there is some serious seed change in the American government bureaucracy, nothing changes. Liberal political correctness seeps from every pore of the political apparatus. You don't change 8 years of Clinton appointments overnight. Read em and weep boys.

http://usembassy.state.gov/riyadh/

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that this would be a GREAT move on the US's part. I know alot of really smart people that are still in the military and I can only hope that the SAMs grads at Leavenworth came up with this option.It is BRILLANT. Kuwait is a feint ... the Turkish Army on the borders of SA and Iran (NOT US soldiers...) .... cheap Turkish oil .... I bet SA starts listening to us then.

...sorry sometimes my fingers are faster then my brain...