Saudi Arabia isn’t our ally IMO, never has been, nor will be. Due our dependence on their oil years ago, and over time we’ve become their whore thanks to public apathy, our professional lifer politicians whom have gained wealth, and acceptance as facilitators for the Saudi Royals.
There’s lots to say on this, but I’ll leave it right there, and head to the kitchen for breakfast.
"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." --- King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993
This has been true for generations, and no recent president, without exception, has had the wisdom and foresight to see Saudi Arabia as it really is : a country of primitive savages, ruled by primitive savages unable to think past their own corrupt generation.
We are on the edge of the end of Saudi Arabia as we know it, which can be either a curse or an opportunity.
If ISIS or ISIL or whatever the savages call themselves, takes over the country, all bets are off. Remember, the Saudis are the "caretakers" of the so-called 'holy places.' When the Saudis flee to Switzerland with their billions$, the stage is set for the inevitable ultimatum. Stop exporting killers and mayhem, or kiss you holy places, and every mosque in the kingdom goodbye.
By now, no country on earth is stupid enough to woo islam in any form, not even the Russians, nor the Chinese, unless the world is prepared for a State worse than anything that can be imagined. History has taught us that both the Russians and the Chinese have killed hundreds of millions of their own people. The new monster, ISIL is literally intolerable as the "rulers" of what used to be Saudi Arabia. The British Empire, oblivious to the reality of a future Islamic state, created the monster of Saudi Arabia in the first place, conscious only of their immediate economic and world empire at the time. I am sure that, had they known, and had it to do all over again...
In the Universe of imperfect worlds, the solution to short circuit the ISIS threat is for the world's superpowers, The U.S., Russia and China to "Take over" Saudi Arabia and administer it (and its diminishing oil reserves) jointly, with 25% of revenues going to the people of Saudi Arabia, and the remainder equally shared by the three superpowers mentioned.
Of course, every muslim mosque, holy place and nut-case magnet will be bulldozed cleanly off the face of the earth.
As a bonus, the Islamic cancer will be wiped from the face of the earth once and for all. The primitive culture of islam will be simply a human aberration, dealt with by the rest of the world. Every other oil-lader Islamic country will be on notice. Stop exporting your killers immediately, or share Saudi Arabia's fate.
What happens next is up to them.
What may actually happen in the near future (aside from the eventual assassination of the entire Saudi Royal family) remains to be seen, but what is certain is that islam must disappear, once and for all.
Islam had 1400 years to succeed as a civilized culture among other civilized world cultures and countries.
Epic fail.