Not our oil. Not our oilfield.
IF the Saudis want to do something about it, we’ll be happy to sell them the weapons and ammo. Let the Moslems kill each other.
IF the Saudis want to do something about it, we’ll be happy to sell them the weapons and ammo. Let the Moslems kill each other.
If DJT is half the negotiator I think he is we might end up owning some of the oil and some of the oilfield.
That might be the price for saving them from Iran.
We get permanent bases and part ownership of the whole shebang. The Saudis might go along since having a US base would deter attacks.
And yes, I remember Khobar Towers. These bases would be much better defended.
That’s what they are doing. The Houthi’s in Yemen are allied with Iran. The problem is that we are the only country with any real military deterrent to Iran’s desire to close the Straits of Hormuz-through which the vast majority of the world’s oil still flows, hence the large coalition of countries when Iraq invaded Kuwait. I despise both countries and wish they would both disappear, but it’s more complicated than that.
Well, under ol' Peanut Brain, it was our embassy. Technically our sovereign soil was invaded, a classic act of war. One of their invaders eventually became their President. He's been retired for years and we still don't have our embassy back. Reagan (promptly!) got our hostages back, but I don't recall whether we ever formally negotiated an end to what was a de facto state of war. Allah knows they verbally declared war on us enough then and continuously ever since.
Now, I'm not saying we should necessarily directly attack them, now, ourselves. But the argument that we have no legit cause to attack them is, technically, false. Even if the idiotic millennials, who can barely remember the Obama years, can't remember it. We should do what strategically makes sense for us. Getting the Saudi's to draft oil subsidized welfare state citizenry out of their hammocks to attack the Shia apostates may make more sense. Draft a bunch of their surplus royals to lead them into battle. Explain to the Euro lefties how all the declining oil production and thus consumption will reduce CO2 and save the climate. When they whine that it will be their consumption which is cut point out how LIFO accounting principles would manage that cut: send back their millions of recently admitted consumers to the warmer climes from whence they'd come, leaving plenty for the real Europeans.
If we did attack them a declaration of war first would make the world take us much more seriously. We should have declared war on 9/12/2001 as a distressingly small number of folks advocated at the time. The counter argument used to block them then was that they couldn't figure out how to fill in the blank for a "Declaration of War against _________." I then, and still do, deem that a gross insult against the... creativity of Congress. Any institution that could write the tax code is more than up to that task!!! Just ask some long time Democrat Ways and Means staffers how to write a tax on the bad guys then substitute 'war' for 'tax.'
:) There you go... That's the best way to handle the situation... Just like Chicago.. What a great place to sell ammo.. :)