[Isn’t that dandy? Give the Saudis more weapons so they can continue blowing up children in Yemen. Our allies who gave us the 9/11 terrorists and continue to spread Islam all over the world.]
These nutjobs are shooting ballistic missiles at Saudi cities because the Saudis are intervening against Yemeni rebels who are being supplied and trained by the Iranians, the way the Soviets supplied and trained the North Koreans and North Vietnamese. The Iranians lobbing ballistic missiles at the Saudis from Yemen is a lot like the Soviets lobbing ballistic missiles at American cities from North Korea or North Vietnam. Which the Soviets never did. The Iranians are nuts.
The Persians have a long history of empire. The Europeans who say Iran can be contained are full of crap. Non-Westerners don’t give a crap about Western ideas* of sovereignty and the end of border changes. As far as they’re concerned, the West had its day in the sun, grabbed the Americas and Australia, and is trying to constrain non-Westerners from getting theirs for the rest of time. Euro dickheads are trying to hold us back because they figure if it goes sour, we’ll pay most of the price, as we probably will, if we have to take the Middle Eastern oilfields back from a nuclear-armed Iran doing a combo of (1) re-assembling the unitary Islamic empire that prevailed under Muhammad and (2) re-living the glory days of Persian empire, when Persia ruled everything from Afghanistan all the way to Greek Anatolia.
* Treaty of Westphalia? Where was the Treaty of Westphalia when the Persian empire was attacked from all sides? As far as Persians (and any non-Western country) is concerned, the current system is basically set up to prevent up and coming challengers from doing what the West did for centuries. From their perspective, while it’s understandable that the West would want to lock in its gains, it’s not clear what those challengers have to gain from letting the West keep its gains for the rest of time. And those gains include the deliberate division (to dilute their ability to set prices in collusion) of the oil-producing Middle Eastern kingdoms, a territory Persians have ruled, off and on, for around a thousand years.
And why should we care if Saudi Arabia collapses? They’re the number one sponsor of Wahabbi terrorism across the globe.