Can Saudi-US relations be healed?  How?
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Saudi - US relations are often in a minor state of dynamic flux, but they are as strong as ever.  For generations, the King of Saudi Arabia and the President of the United States have made pledges of mutual assistance to one another.
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We can't, the oil wouldn't be secure anymore.  Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia would have a free for all.  We created a mess that we won't stabilize for a VERY long time.  For all his evil, Saddam did manage to keep a lid on one of the biggest pressure cookers in the world.  Of course, mission accomplished for us, we showed him we could do a better job.\n\nAlienorgy, my heart is with you man.  I know they pump you up on a philosophy that your life depends on you believing.  Looking forward to seeing your story when you're done.  I was lucky I was there in the beginning when it was easy.
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Bush attacked the wrong country? Saudi Arabia is a nest of vipers.\n  Meanwhile, hundreds of innocent people die in Iraq every week.
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Yes, it is becasue it is an Arab country. The US right now is going through an identity crisis.\n\nWe make it our business to spread democracy and freedom around the world, yet when a party is democratically elected, and we don't like them, we want to break diplomatic relations. (Hamas)\n\nWe belive in free trade/market, and have allowed businesses from other countries maintain our ports, yet now that there is an Arab country involved, it is a problem.\n\nThe United States does not know what position it is to hold in the world.
950556
way to go for noticing.i will tell you exactly what is going on.this whole war is being orchestrated by the Saudis.it has been from the start.Bush was told there were no weapons but said he knew better and would attack with or without approval.so Saddam is out of power and there are no weapons so why are we still there and what reason do we have to keep prolonging it.the reason is as long as it continues the countries that were buying their oil from Iraq have to buy it from the Saudis.makes sense now don't it.this also the exact reason why Bush keeps coming up with excuses trying to get support to attack Syria and Iran.again for more Saudi profit.now there is no oil profit for the Saudis in N.Korea so Bush wants to handle this diplomatically.there is no other reason that makes sense why we would have to go to the Saudis to talk strategy before the President meets with the leader of Iraq.excellent job and question.can't wait to read all the answers to this one .especially the Republican supporters.
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In some aspects, they do have a point.\n\nThe USA won't mind our own business. The arabs see the USA as imperialist hell bent on destroying them.\n\nThe US needs to do some good PR and change the situation.
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To anyone who thinks diplomacy would have been more effective:\n\nWhat are the terms Osama bin Laden is demanding? HOW do you deal with him? Invite him to the White House and work out terms over coffee??\n\nNo, the ONLY option in fighting terror is war. Anyone who thinks otherwise need only look to Spain and the train bombings of 3/11 AFTER the election of a prime minister who said he was pulling out of Iraq.
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These days most middle eastern countries claim/want to be US allies. The rest want to be the opposite. I live in Dubai and the conflict in the US government lobby regarding the Dubai Ports World deal created a lot of bad publicity in the press about the US, however i have not encountered even one comment that says the US-UAE relations should be severed. \n\nFact is, even though US supports Israel from the beginning, most countries in the region are and have been allies of the US, the most obvious cause of that being the US support of Kuwait when it was attacked by Iraq in 1991. A lot of the money from the region is invested in the US.\n\nFrom the point of view of the US, they want to have as many allies the region as possible. They do have all the oil here, don't they. And the petrodollars do flow into the US in most cases. However, this is indeed changing now.
550556
Try the word flip-flop. The bottom line is the US put Saddam in power. We made a mistake. Now we should clean up our mess.
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wat?! hell no. didnt they try to make peace a few years ago? that worked well.....\n\ni honestly dont think so
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yeah yeah *note of extreme sarcasm* they dont have any nuclear weapons *wink wink*\nand the saudi's are strong armed by USA to not do anything...
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Oil! They are now drilling for it in the plains of Asher! It several miles deep. And may take a year to reach.   My question is will this relieve the pressure from the Saudi wells? If so all hell will break loose over there!
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This may apply to you.\n\nJust look at your post where you got basic factual information wrong regarding Al Quaeda and the US and Iran.
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Well, when the Shah was deposed in Iran, we figured that things would improve there.  Look what happened.  A few months before the Islamic Revolution, 60 Minutes did a story on the Ayatollah Khomeini that made him out the be the deposed savior of Iran.  Many speculate that Carter brought the Shah into exile in the US to allow the Ayatollah to return to Iran.  Boy, did he ever!  First thing that happened was they took over the US Embassy and held the staff captive for the balance of Carter's term in office.\n\nSyria is so factionalized that any regeime change there is likely to be meaningless.  One wacko will take over from another and little, if anything, will change.\n\nForcing of any regeime change will have to come from within the Arab world.  There's NO WAY that the US could attempt such a thing; if nothing else we've learned that from Iraq.\n\nIf the US could broker a peace accord between Israel and a couple of the more stable Arab countries in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait all come to mind) as Jimmy Carter did between Israel and Egypt then it's possible that much could change just from the natural momentum of those agreements.
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The Bush family has a very cozy relationship with the Saudi royal family and the bin Ladens. In fact, the Saudi ambassador is the only diplomat with his own Secret Service security detail.
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Its all about money.\n\n As they run out of Money the people will start to change their views. \n\nNo other countries are helping them now because of money, even saudi arab has said no to them
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This has been thoroughly explained in the excellent books "House of Bush, House of Saud" and "Hatred's Kingdom"!  Basically, the Saudis came to the repugnican party bearing many Billions of dollars in gifts if the repugnicans would only perform a few 'favors' for them, namely getting rid of Saddam Hussein and de-stabilizing the middle East so that they could spread their doctrine of wahhabi islam.  The bush family alone recieved over one Billion dollars in business contracts and gifts.  When you read these books, you will inevitably come to the chilling realization that the White House is being controlled by the royal family of Saudi Arabia!!\n\nThat is why the money that was funneled to the 9/11 terrorists went through a bank controlled by the bush family, that is why, despite mountains of evidence, no Saudi has been prosecuted or even deported for supporting these terrorists.  And that is why, while every American was grounded, all of the parties who could have supplied the answers that America was searching for were flown out on cushy private jets paid for by Washington, D.C.\n\nA quick review of Saudi Arabias one and only religion; wahhabism.  In Saudi Arabia children are taught to read and write at the same time that they are taught that the murder of any unbeliever is a secure way to heaven.  Jews and Christians, these children are taught, are as unclean as pigs and deserve death.  They also teach that any Jew or Christian house should be burned to the ground.  Yet, these are the people that the repugnicans call "Allies".  People who would kill us without even blinking, man, woman and child.\n\nAs you read this, hundreds of wahhabi 'madrassas' have already been built in Iraq, there are plans for thousands more.  A 'madrassa' is a school of terror.  We can't kill osama because he is too important to Saudi Arabia, he is the general of their secret army of terror, al quada.  And this is how the republican party has committed the ultimate treason against the free world.\n\nFor money.