[AmericanInTokyo]

Seeing as Free Republic has been, for as long as I can recall for over 22 years, very ANTI SAUDI ARABIA, and particularly since 9-11 and their connections to Bush Family and the clear line from them to Islamofascism terrorism (spiriting royal family members and diplomats out of the US prior to 9-11), I would expect Freepers to also be consistent and be happy that House of Saud is being exposed for what they are? Right? There probably will be nobody on here sticking up for Riyadh and giving them slack. Right?

[binreadin]

There is a different leader in Saudi Arabia, one who was working with us.

[Just mythoughts]

What exactly is your point? What I read is the drum beat for war.. any place on God’s green earth.. Deep state planted contractors, in need of taxpayer blood and treasury, for their Congressional masters? Some people are truly ignorant.

[cgbg]

“The House of Saud” is very complex—with members ranging from insane psychopaths to wonderful humanitarians.

The current ruler seems to be a part of the first group.

The problem is—our current ruler is also an insane psychopath—so not a great time to start pointing fingers...

[wardaddy]

You have to pick

I pick Saudi Arabia over Iran

My Oldest son who’s thinks I’m not conservative enough and studies Syria and Assad

Picks Iran over Saudi Arabia

He gets banned from 4chan

It’s quite a pickle

[Widget Jr]

Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul and left chopped up in garbage bags. There is nothing to dispute about that.

[blueplum]

I think it's more a matter of timing my FRiend. Playing footsie with Iran while condemning Saudi leadership. Playing at pulling Iranian sanctions while threatening to levy them against Saudi over a matter that's pretty much old news, redux. A matter already being handled by Trump, and which could countinue to be handled behind the scenes, is not a good thing.

Nobody's going to hang the crown prince. If there's a call for overthrow, who replaces them, in a country that is the 12th largest sovereignty in the world, the largest economy in the Middle East, the 18th largest economy in the world and, that hosts 4 US military bases? How long until stability and who ends up in charge? Who keeps the oil flowing? Regime change - to our benefit- would need a hugh plan, with all the cogs working at the same time. Impossible with a royal family as large as the Saudis. And as impossible if more so for Biden than Obama and his 'arab spring' fiasco. So publically fomenting unrest without a plan isn't the answer. We already have one Libya, and both it and Iraq are long-term disaster scenes. Better to avoid creating a vacuum that Russia or China could walk right in to. Carrying out diplomacy on the front pages of the NYT is a fool's choice.

[Theoria]

Nobody cares as long as the spice flows. Just look at how all the presidents turn a blind eye on China. Decade after decade of abuse and attacks on our interest and nobody cares. As long as companies can outsource plants there.

Same with ksa. You can actually be a Christian or Jew in Iran. Try that in KSA. There are multiple synagogues and churches in Iran.