Reply #11: Herein lies the danger [View All]

I spent the first few days after 9/11 alone in a car traveling my sales district. I had a lot of time to think and Saudi Arabia weighed heavily on my mind.

The Royal family in Saudi Arabia has been playing this dangerous game for years: buying off the radicals in exchange for peace within the Kingdom. After 9/11 they must have been horrified that the dangerous Wahhabis(sp) they had spawned had enraged their chief protector, the United States. They knew that the US would have to retaliate against Al Queda but did they underestimate the strength of the AQ/fundamentalist movement within their own country? Could they have cracked down on the fundamentalist within their own country then? I asked this question on those days immediately after 9/11.

The invasion of Iraq could not have been good for the Saudi Family. True, we took our bases out of the country, but we certainly made no friends in the Arab world. Did we intensify the hate?

Obviously, the Royal Family never cracked down on or tempered the radical fundamentalist and in a sense, committed suicide. If US troops have to go into Saudi Arabia to protect our oil supply, we will indeed be in for another generation of war....and beheadings will become all too common.