We don't get the bulk of our oil imports from the Saudis. They supply about 11%. Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, Columbia, and Venezuela supply significant amounts. We get 40% of our oil from Canada. If the US becomes energy independent, Canada will be hurt more than the Saudis.
What reign of economic terror are you referring to? The Saudis have been the ones who have helped stabilize world oil prices and when OPEC threatened reductions in oil production to increase prices, the Saudis increased production to offset them.
They need us way more than we need them.
The global economy, of which we are a part, needs Saudi oil. The Saudis have been very helpful to us in many ways. If the radical Islamic fundamentalists ever topple the House of Saud, the ramifications would be devastating for us and our allies. It would be a replay of Iran ten times over.
I refer to OPEC and the Saudi’s with the oil embargoes of the 1970’s I lived through. Again it was Saudi’s who flew planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon.
The Saudi’s cut prices and increased production recently to try and drive US fracking companies out of business. None of this was for our benefit.
With the Saudi’s being primarily sunnah and Iran being shia an attempted Iranian overthrow would result in a blood bath for both countries. The Saudi’s and Iran have funded most of the terrorism in the world. Again we don’t need them anymore if they are actively funding people that seeks to murder Americans here and abroad. It is time for the Saudi’s to enter the 21st century and stop support for the barbarism that is wahhabi.