For those answering oil, -- I don't buy that. You might argue dollar exchange, but oil prices historic lows, Saudis replaceable.
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they're where we launder our disagreeable tasks (arming rebels in various countries namely)
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Now we might be getting somewhere. But they seem ot have gone rogue of late, making things less tidy than they used to be
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it's perhaps that they've outlived their usefulness. Not sure what other regime they can help us destabilize.
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There's ALWAYS more destabilization they can do. ALWAYS.
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Indeed. I don't presume to know the 11 dimensional chess at work but I do think the idea of KSA being rogue is overblown.
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Not compelling. Oil is at historic lows. Saudis increasingly replaceable.
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Not compelling. Oil low b/c Saudis instrumental in controlling OPEC. Not an excuse or advocacy, just a reason.
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Not anymore, they're not.
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I've always assumed partly simply to keep them inside with no nuclear weapons programme.
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So we tolerate persistent terrorist threat over decades to prevent them from getting nukes they funded already in PK?
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it's keeps the nukes out of the region i guess. If they had them Iran would've by now too.
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Israel moved out of the region and I didn't hear about it?
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In part to not make it look like we've turned the larger playing field loose for Shi'a-type revanchism/lebensraum writ large.
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Meaning if we do it will lead to ... what consequences?
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you have to look at WHO in the U.S. has close relations w KSA. These few have a very different set of incentives than the many
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Agree.
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Perhaps a discussion on Frontline will reveal. Pretty sure U.S. isn't secretly supporting Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam.
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No. By our actions we are overtly doing so, whether or not we support their ideology or not.
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Oh! Didn't think anyone was listening.:) Agree with you. Perhaps CIA has little Saudi moles everywhere. They've got secrets.
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