Even with the growing threat of ISIS, even now the Saudis are getting SCARED bigtime.
The Saudis made the same Faustian deal with us that the Kuwaiti made. Don’t build a first world military and rely on the US for protection.
They have worked against us while at the same time relying on our protection. When we grow too week or too spread out to protect them then it is a given that the other Muslim powers are likely to seize Mecca and Medina (offing the house of Saud in the process).
If not for the Catholic Church Christianity would have been completely whipped off the face of the earth. But you will not get too many protestant posters to even reply to this main story, the truth about the Crusades. Hatred runs so deep with them that they can never give credit to the Catholic Church for anything. And that my friends is sad.