"The Vast Power of the Saudi Lobby"- by John R. MacArthur
The long and corrupt history of American-Saudi relations centers around the kingdom's vast reserves of easily extractable oil, of course. Ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt met aboard ship in 1945 with King Ibn Saud, the special relationship with the desert kingdom has only grown stronger. The House of Saud is usually happy to sell the US oil at a consistent and reasonable price and then increase production if unseemly market forces drive the world price of a barrel too high for U.S. consumers.
In exchange the US arms the Saudis to the teeth and turns a blind eye to their medieval approach to crime and punishment. Comment EU-Digest - and let us not forget their non excistent democracy and rule by Sharia law
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