While the United States somehow managed to avoid another ruinous war in Syria back in September the push for military strikes against the regime of Bashar al-Assad continues. Despite all of the best efforts of the Obama administration to sell yet another Middle East war to a public that has been slowly bled dry economically by the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan over the last twelve years Barry couldn’t close the deal. It was close, the propaganda value of the poor, twitching dead children, gassed at Ghouta had enormous emotional power especially when it was continually rebroadcast and invoked in speech after speech by Obama and Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry. The bombers and missiles were nearly flying towards Damascus when Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced on an offhand gaffe about chemical weapons disarmament by Kerry who has long been afflicted with an incurable case of diarrhea of the mouth. Assad eagerly agreed to surrender his chemical weapons stocks and the imminent disaster that could have morphed into World War III was put onto the back burner.
This did not sit well with some, especially those who have been instigating for American intervention to fight their own territorial wars lest they be seen as what they really are, always best to let the western devil do the dirty work lest the revolution fall upon their own opulent palaces. Specifically outraged over the rare bit of American hesitance are our dear 'partners in peace' the Saudis. The House of Saud has been apoplectic over the failure of Obama to order up the attacks based on ginned up evidence that is still inconclusive and more likely the culprits were the radical Islamist militants, some of them cannibals and others affiliated with al Qaeda and backed by the Saudis. The roiling cauldron of animosity boiled over in an ugly public snit at the United Nations when the Saudis rejected a U.N. Security Council seat based on the failure of the body to lunge for the bait at Ghouta and back the plans to tip the balance of the Syrian civil war against Assad. Then in the aftermath of the Kingdom's great insult of giving the finger to the U.S./U.N. the veteran manipulator and media friendly fixer for the royal family Prince Bandar bin Sultan, now the head of Saudi intelligence came out and stated that the Saudis would be making a "major shift" away from the United States going forward.
Predictably this display of petulant indignity by a longtime entitled parasite rattled cages in the establishment. The ever feckless elitist Kerry immediately flew into action to kiss the asses of the royals in a frantic effort at damage control, hope that he has his bags packed because with the revelations of the Obama NSA Stasi spying on foreign leaders growing by the day he is going to need to pay a lot of lip service in the coming weeks - hope he has a good supply of lip balm on hand. I am sure that while true rulers of this country, the big moneyed interests who most benefit from kowtowing to the rotten, oppressive and decadent Saudi monarchy and the most to lose from a cessation of the graft that millions of Americans would be perfectly happy to see Bandar and the rest of The Kingdom go their own way.
Let us not forget that fifteen of the nineteen September 11, 2001 hijackers hailed from Bandar’s land and that the Bush administration which then allowed planeloads of Saudis leave America while the national airspace was locked down out of fear of more attacks. The Bush family adored bin Sultan so much that they affectionately referred to him as “Bandar Bush” and during his time spent as U.S. ambassador was quite the aficionado of decadent western culture. While the royals funded and encouraged terrorists it was far from uncommon to see Prince Bandar partying with celebrities and wealthy Americans, even at one time reportedly prancing around on the sidelines of Texas Stadium during the 1990's Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl winning dynasty years. If you want to see a picture of the sheer hypocrisy of the Saudis as they currently rage about some perverse and self-serving Orwellian form of 'morality' you need look no further than their outward face of their own moral rot who is the loquacious Bandar Bush. He is a pimp for a regime that treats women like animals, brooks no tolerance for resistance and is among the most regressive countries on the planet. With "friends" like this who the hell needs enemies?
The Saudis have overplayed their hands and outlived their usefulness. With the rising domestic energy production courtesy of the shale boom and technological advances in hydraulic fracturing aka fracking (which represents problems of its own) we now may finally be able to wean ourselves away from the Middle East tyrants and dependence on oil that requires catering to every whim of their despotic regimes. No wonder that Bandar is shitting bricks these days, there are finally options available and it is about damned time to cast away the vileness that is the Saudi monarchy - like the removal of a painful and annoying anal cyst. They can throw all of the ugly snits that their black hearts desire and while they are flush with money to buy politicians and launch public relations campaigns the era of having to bow down to those desert dwelling reprobates is coming to an end. Bandar Bush and his despicable royal family can continue to sow the seeds of unrest by backing terrorists and may yet succeed in bullying Obama into another regional disaster but their time of disproportionate influence is just about over.
At the end of the dawning day the brutal truth is that they can’t eat their oil. Conversely, once the oppressed religious fanatics that they have so nurtured, funded and sent forth to fight the same Great Satan that they were cutting deals with to fund their whores, yachts and partying finally turn on them absent the protection of the American military and political power structure there will be nowhere to hide.
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