This guy says stop letting the corrupt Saudi tail wag the dog. Take them down next:
November 1, 2001
In Praise of Instability
By Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer and the author of "Fighting For The Future: Will America Triumph?" (Stackpole, 1999).
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Worse, we continue to let Saudi Arabia bully us. My own greatest worry is that the Bush administration will be unable to rise above its oil-field roots. We have allowed the Saudis to convince us that we need them, when the opposite is true. Without the oil revenue to bribe its own population (including terrorists) and its neighbors, the House of Saud would collapse. The Saudis have the blood of Sept. 11 all over themselves. We owe them less than we owe the Pakistanis, and it is time to call their bluff.
Imagine if the Saudi oil-fields were confiscated, administered in trust, and the revenue used to develop public health, sanitation and education systems throughout the Islamic world, instead of funding the degenerate excesses of royalty on vacation in the West. Of course, we would hear initial threats and complaints from other Arab states -- even as they calculated how best to grab their share of the financial spoils. The Saudis are hated at least as deeply as we are, and the crocodile tears shed for them would barely mask the underlying grins.
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