Saudi Arabia is teetering on
Saudi Arabia is teetering on the brink of collapse.
Letting a faction allied with Al-Qaeda take over the government that controls the access to Mecca is a truly excellent way to force moderate muslims to take sides. It’ll also knock Europe and Japan off the fence, since the chaos of a Saudi civil war will put a real crimp in their oil supplies. They’ll beg us to restore order, since they don’t possess the means to do so. And we can waltz in nice and and easy, using the troops we’ve put in place for ostensible use against Saddam. Letting your enemy take our their main source of support is jujitsu of the highest order. Do I think this administration is smart enough to do that? Hell no. They might be smart enough to take advantage of it, though.
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