given what’s he’s doing, i’d say obama’s patron is the king of the house of saud.
Just what I was trying to say Secret Agent. Prince bin Talal represents the House of Saud. “His” company, Kingdom Holdings, represents more the 90% of Saudi investments. He is the largest external holder of New Corp (Fox and WSJ), one of the largest in Citibank, AIG, Oracle, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Siemens, ... This is about big, big business. Are they simply protecting their prerogatives over their harems, their castles, their race horses, their airplanes...? They are presumably buying protection from their own creations, the Salafist and Al-Qaeda terrorists. They are buying protection from the 12th Mahdi (or was it the 11th?), Shia Muslims who have been battling with Sunnis for about 1300 years over who are the real Muslims.