Saudi Royal Family Angry America Won’t Bomb Syria Or Crush Peasants
Members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are threatening to sever ties with the United States as a result of the decision not to attack Syria and crush an uprising in Bahrain.
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief promised a “major shift” in relations due to U.S. unwillingness to spend American blood and treasure fighting Bashar al-Assad. Prince Bandar bin Sultan spoke to European diplomats and bemoaned the fact that the American government refused to help them brutally crack down an anti-government revolt in Bahrain in 2011.
‘The shift away from the U.S. is a major one,’ sources close to policy said. ‘Saudi doesn’t want to find itself any longer in a situation where it is dependent.’
President Barack Obama was forced against his wishes to keep the US out of Syria after public pressure and a reluctant congress pushed back against his demands for violence. The U.S. president famously struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which required Syria to turn over its chemical weapons arsenal in exchange for keeping America out of the conflict.
‘The current charade of international control over Bashar’s chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people,’ said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family.
Saudi Arabia rejected a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council last week in a tantrum aimed to show their anger at the international communities refusal to intervene in Syria. ‘There is nothing whimsical about the decision to forego membership of the Security Council. It is based on the ineffectual experience of that body,’ said Turki.
U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia have had lower points, such as in 1973 when the country issued an oil embargo to punish America for supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur war. Also, it was mostly Saudi terrorists that bombed the World Trade Centers on September 11th, prompting the United States to attack Afghanistan and later Iraq.
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I’m already against the next war… But if it was brought up about going to war with these guys I would definitely think about it.
If it makes you angry that a foreign power sees nothing wrong with pitching a fit when the US doesn’t do exactly what it wants, thank an environmentalist.
With all their money they could afford to have their OWN military fight their battles!
They already have the most powerful and organised PMC force at their disposal