[MadIvan]

I hope they kill each other, if true.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Biscuit85]

They'll kill British and American troops before killing each other though

[backtothestreets]

This has been steadily building for a few months. Saudi's king traveled to Turkey to conclude a military cooperation treaty back in September or October.

[prophetic]

bump 4 later

[Joe Boucher]

Really, I was just thinking, hard to choose a side you care to win in this one. Hope it's a tie and they just kill off each other.

[KC Burke]

Anything they try and do by themselves they will try at arms length with money.

They have always kept their military divided and sectionalized to avoid an coup. While they have a lot of hardware, they don't use it.

[Jim Noble]

OK, it's time for a new Jim Noble victory plan. Scrub the 80 divisions, the sealift, the missionaries.

Simple 3 steps now.

1) Evacuate the Iraq Expeditionary Force
2) Let Iran and Saudi Arabia fight
3) Nuke the winner.

It's a plan!

[taxed2death]

"Saudi Arabia, America's closest ally in the Arab world, is considering backing anti-US insurgents .."


"Ally"?

Nope, just showing their true colors one more time.

[Tahoe3002]

I could not agree more. I would LOVE to see SA and Iran go at it, as we watch from the sidelines, rubbing our hands in glee. I would sincerely LOVE to see a war between these two muslims countries. We could sell weapons to both sides (limit the spare parts and maintenance manuals), then go in and rebuild the oil infrastructure and refineries.

This is my favorite scenario. The Persian Gulf could then be renamed the RED SEA!

[alex]

It was always my point, let all the morons everywhere have all the fights they want. It is way too expensive to maintain the the "world order" moreover to maintain it alone - the free trade does not provide enough benefits to cover the costs.

And one more thing: US out of UN and UN out of US.

[roses of sharon]

Military powers, wearing military uniforms? Who knew?

Hiding behind women and children to blow up innocents in the marketplace has been the only "power" I have seen in the ME for over a decade.

[gore_sux]

We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.

George Bush - Sept 20, 2001

[muawiyah]

This is what the Saudis and Iranians have been bribing US and UK politicians to get.

Why any honest American would support the idea is beyond me. Rather "W" should round up the folks taking the money ~ and he can't say he doesn't know who they are ~

[uncbob]

We should have seized all the ME oil Fields back in 91 when we had the miltary strength to do it

That is what I told my co-workers that needed to be done

The ME is too volatile to alow the oil supply to be in the muslims control

We had to go over there to protect the sea lanes when Iran and Iraq were going at each other

Problem is our military has been gutted and manpower levels for boots on the ground are no where near what we would need

Crapolla hits the fan in the ME watch the oil supply dry up

[uncbob]

AHEM

OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL

What happens to that when all this killing each other goes on

Remember when Iran and Iraq went at each other

I do believe we had to go over there and insure the sea lanes stayed open so OIL OIL OIL could keep flowing

[Wilhelm Tell]

Probably what will eventually happen is that the Sunni part of Iraq will become part of Syria and the Shiah part will become a satellite state of Iran. So all we have accomplished is to give Iran a big prize. This might cause problems for Iran in the future, however. Even though their client state will be of the same sect, they are Arabs while the Iranians are Persians. They won't get along in the long run.

And the Kurds will want their de-facto state to become official and this might cause conflict with Turkey. If Turkey becomes part of the EU, this might drag the EU into a mid-East war.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Saudi Arabia, America's closest ally in the Arab world, is considering backing anti-US insurgents because it is so alarmed that Sunnis in Iraq will be left to their fate — military and political — at the hands of the Shia majority."

Anyone want to bet that the US and the Saudis already discussed this as part of the strategy when America puts its troops closer to the Iranian and Syrian border? If it wasn't discussed, then Rummy's "secret" memo would never have surfaced.

[Mike Darancette]

The Saudis are understood to be considering providing Sunni military leaders with funding, logistical support and even arms, as Iran already does for Shia militia in Iraq.

Where does alQeada (which now backs the Sunnis in Iraq) fit into this equation since alQaeda's main reason for being is hatred for the Saudi royal family?

[CottShop]

We should tell all the civilians to vacate the area, let the Suadies and Iranians go at it- then drop the atomic bomb on any survivors! http://sacredscoop.com

[Chgogal]

This is a very interesting article. I will leave you both now and allow these passages and possibilities to sink in. This is very interesting indeed.