Stuck between a Saudi and a hard place No sexual conitations with my title please. Anyways, Saudi Arabia (SA) is the top financeer and provider of troops to al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and so on. They have all this money, and the United States' interest because of oil. We went to war in 1991 to protect the oil which is now being used against us when that oil is being sold and consumed by and for us. If this isn't ironic and confusing I don't know what is. Is Saudi Arabia an enemy? Yes and no. The royal family is not democratic by any means, but they are much more modern and moderate then those they rule over. Things they say in public are usually 180 degrees different than what is said through back channels to the States. Anything that happens in the Gulf has to be looked at in the context of distabilizing the royal family. If the royals are dethroned then the President of Saudi Arabia would probably be Osama bin Laden or someother Islamic terrorist radical. P.S. That new guy would have a lot of oil to sell and not sell.
