Castrated

Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air.

Guest Post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

After three decades of internecine war, Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, allied with the fundamentalist Wahhabist Islamic sect, consolidated the House of Saud’s dominance over Arabia in 1932 with the tacit support of regional imperial power Great Britain. The bedrock of the Saudi Arabian economy, the massive pool of oil in the Al-Hasa region along the Persian Gulf coast, was discovered in 1938 and development began in 1941. Towards the end of World War II, President Roosevelt and Abdul-Aziz reached a handshake deal that has governed relations between the two nations ever since: Saudi Arabia would guarantee the flow of oil to the US at a reasonable price; the US would protect the Saud regime.

Like so many born into wealth, the House of Saud has mistaken fortuitous circumstances for divine favor, haughtily condescending to a world that goes along with its pretensions because of its oil. Saudi Arabia is dependent for its security and armaments on the west, particularly the US. No particular skill is necessary to extract (its reserves are among the world’s shallowest and easiest to tap), transport, or export its oil. It exports most of its oil because it has little industry, although its riches have made it a financial center and funded one of the world’s most generous welfare states. Much of the actual labor is performed by immigrants. The partial diversion of oil revenues has kept the non-House of Saud population pacified.

Oil has made the House of Saud one of the wealthiest extended clans in the world. It retains this privileged position by virtue of US military and intelligence support and its relationship with the Wahhabist clerics. Essentially, the clerics give their unwavering support to the regime, and the regime faithfully executes Sharia law (and those who violate it) in accordance with the dictates of the clerics.

It is an unfortunate tendency of the silver-spoon set not to confine itself to philanthropy, collecting art and fast cars, and other harmless pursuits. They seem compelled to tell the rest of us how to live and think. The Wahhabists make the do-gooders plaguing America look benign. It may be true that some sects of Islam are peaceful and only want to live and let live, but not the Wahhabists, it’s their brand of Sunni Islam or nothing. Everyone else is an infidel, to be converted or beheaded. So rather than just building big palaces in the desert, praying five times a day, and shopping in Paris, London, New York, and Beverly Hills, Saudi silver-spooners export their Puritanical Islam and expect obsequence from the rest of the world.

The US government promised Saudi Arabia that it would remove the military bases it erected there during Gulf War I after Saddam Hussein had been vanquished from Kuwait. It did not do so. Fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Osama bid Laden, a native of Saudi Arabia from a wealthy and well-connected family, had been happy enough to accept aid from the US. His anger at the bases and the broken promise reportedly sparked the 9/11 attacks.

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Arabians. Twenty-eight classified pages of a 2002 Congressional 9/11 investigation may well show that they received assistance from members of the Saudi Arabian government and royal family. Family members of 9/11 victims have long pressed for their release, although it will not, because of the sovereign immunity doctrine, help them in their efforts to sue the Saudi government. Senate Bill 2040 would declassify the 28 pages and suspend sovereign immunity for any government found complicit in a terrorist attack that kills Americans on US soil.

The Saudis have cranked up their greasy US lobbying apparatus to stop the bill, and have threatened to dump $750 billion in US debt if it becomes law. The 28 pages should be released because it will add to what we know about 9/11, but there is no chance Senate Bill 2040 will become law. President Obama has pledged to veto the legislation if it passes, and went to Saudi Arabia last week to “reassure” its leaders. Even if it didn’t upset the apple cart of the US-Saudi Arabian alliance, it would open the door to other nations and multinational bodies suspending the US’s sovereign immunity for say, drone strikes and indiscriminate bombings that have killed innocent people, arguably terrorist acts.

Unfortunately, the 9/11 imbroglio will probably not be the catalyst for a rupture in the alliance. Further exposure of Saudi duplicity would underscore an argument SLL has repeatedly made: the Saudis play a double game with the US. They have funded al Qaeda and its offshoots, notably ISIS, and have underwritten the world-wide export of Wahhabism and its doctrines of jihad and Islamic domination. The US friendship with the Saudi regime undercuts its claim of moral exceptionalism; the regime is among the world’s most repressive. Its Sharia law outlaws homosexuality and makes women chattels. Civil liberties are nonexistent, and lashings or beheadings await those who dare to speak out against the regime.

The proper US response to the Saudi’s threat would have been the middle finger. Ever-happy-to-monetize central banks and the world’s capital markets can handle a $750 billion sale of US debt. There would be a price concession as markets soaked the Saudis, but after the sale prices would rally and there would be no permanent damage. That the US would allow itself to be threatened illustrates what happens when a confederated empire rests on borrowed money. How long can an empire last that succumbs to its creditors’ threats? (China has a lot more US government debt than Saudi Arabia.)

Mostly what the US response illustrates is what happens when you have a government run by eunuchs. A bipartisan, bought-and-paid-for coalition of chicken hawks sends in bombers, drones, special forces, and the NSA to wage lucrative, costly, bloody, doomed-to-fail, civil-liberties-destroying wars against terrorist “threats,” but sucks up to an empty-robe regime that has indoctrinated, funded, and armed al Qaeda and ISIS. What would the Saudis do with their oil if the world’s largest oil consumer bought elsewhere, especially as the low oil price bleeds Saudi Arabia’s foreign currency reserves? What would their military—which can’t take out fourth-rate Yemen—do if the world’s number one arms supplier refused to sell to it? What would their corrupt and tyrannical alliance of mosque and state do if the US denounced the corruption and tyranny? What leverage would the Saudi’s have after they sold their $750 billion in debt?

Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air. Nothing so captures the testicularly-challenged US government and its leader’s relationship to that den of thieves as the photograph at the top of the page.

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nkit
nkit

The last sentence says it all, Robert. I subconsciously winced when I saw our testicularly-challenged “leader” in the picture. Oh the embarrassment to the U.S.

rhs jr
rhs jr

Good comments except that China and Europe buy their oil Herr Dummkopf.

Full Retard
Full Retard

You saw the disdain Trump has for the poor pissants running for president. No doubt Obammy is seen this way in the House of Saud.

RT Rider
RT Rider

I have a suspicion that a great deal of the gold thought to be in Fort Knox, sits in Saudi vaults or custodially, by the NY Fed.

Unfriendly
Unfriendly

Excellent analysis . I say, let them eat their sand, drink their oil, bow down to their false moon god and their violent, pedophile prophet.

ASIG
ASIG

It has always been and will continue to be a deal with the devil.

Gator
Gator

Excellent analysis. Ive spent a lot fo time around saudis in Bahrain, and while most of them were actually very friendly, as a culture they are insanely arrogant. And you are right about the imported labor, those people will not lift a fucking finger. They believe it is beneath them. Them, the Bahrainis, and the Kuwaitis(only ones I have personally spent a lot of time around) have what are called TCNs(third country nationals) that do all their actual work for them. They treat them like complete shit too, even down to how much they will tip them.

In Bahrian, every single food place delivers, and we always tipped those guys like we would tip a pizza delivery guy in the US, but not the saudis. They know that the equivilent of 75 cents is a lot of money to a paki or bangladeshi, so thats all they give them, no matter what the bill it.

As far as technical skills, none. At all. And they don’t take care of anything either. Those people could break an iron anvil with a rubber mallet, I shit you not.

And they are the height of hypocracy too. I have gotten absolutely hammered with what I am pretty sure were saudi royals in Bahrain numerous times. They paid for all our shit, didn’t but a single drink, and I cannot even guess how many shots were involved. Alcohol is REALLY expensive in Bahrain, too. They usually would only tell me their first name, and sometimes either wouldn’t even say what they did for work, or theyd say “i work for the government”. I asked one if he was a Saudi prince one time, just because of the way he was throwing money around, and he just said “i am just a nice guy” and wouldn’t tell me who he was. But, he kept wanting to arm wrestle me, and when I finally did and slammed his arm down, his what I assume were bodyguard leapt up onto their feet until the guy started laughing and waved them away. He was not the only guy I saw down there drinking with body guards either. Those guys would drink only coffee or red bull and would just stand about 10 feet away, all the time, and wouldn’t say a word to anyone. My point in this long story? Those wahhabists preach their strict brand of islam in SA, then cross the causeway into bahrain and to drink and fuck thai hookers. You’ve never seen such degenerates in your entire life.

We even had a bunch of saudi cops stay near our villa one time, and when they left, we had a stack of budweiser and bourbon on our front door, since they can’t take it back to SA with them. So in SA, their job is to arrest and punish anyone who is caught with alcohol(the penalties are harsh) and prostitution can cause the women to be stoned. They drive across to bahrain, and spend 3 days straight doing nothing but drink and fuck hookers.

Uncle Charley

Given the reaction of the Saudis to even the potential release of the 28 pages, you can pretty much figure out it what they contain.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Nice post RG.

The Sauds were complicit in nine one one.

That is true Gator. I went to school with some Saudis training to be Aircraft Mechanics. Arrogant people. And drunks. Drugs. But would not do them in their own land. Absolute hypocrites.

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Excellent article. I enjoyed Gator’s post just about as much, too.

You’d think, with a vast expanse of ocean on either side of the USA, Canada to the north, and Mexico to the south, given ALL our God given natural resources including energy and food, that we could mind our own business, provide for ourselves, manufacture our own goods, and let the old world that’s thousands of miles away do as they wish without our involvement. But no, we have to meddle in just about every country’s affairs, prop dictators and despicable regimes, overthrow democratically elected ones, and send precious blood and treasure into worthless endeavors. I don’t believe the USA is the cause of or the solution to the world’s problems, however, we can make a significant difference for the betterment of the people, prosperity, and protection of this nation by reducing the role we play in world affairs. We can start by expelling the UN headquarters from New York and our involvement therein. Although I expect otherwise, globalism deserves to be placed in the dustbin of American history.

Anonymous
Anonymous

That brings up the FBI and its inability to do their job and cuff Hillary.Whats the problem boys?

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Anon, personal opinion, that taking Hillarity to court would expose too many skeletons, and so they wont proceed against her.

SSS

Anonymous says:

“That brings up the FBI and its inability to do their job and cuff Hillary.Whats the problem boys?”

Patience, dear boy, patience.

bb

Gator sounds like you fit right in.I had a buddie that worked over in Saudi Arabia in the early 70s .He said one day he took a shovel and dug down about 3 feet and struck oil.He said the oil just bubbled up out of the earth. He was a Drilling engineer for British Petroleum. Worked over for there 5 years came home and bought 100 acres of land and retired.Still retired to this day .

Mark
Mark

Hussein speaking right now on CSpan at a town hall in London.

The people are all Muslims. What the fuck. This is supposed to stop a Brit Exit?

Gator
Gator

JA – I don’t believe the USA is the cause of or the solution to the world’s problems, however, we can make a significant difference for the betterment of the people, prosperity, and protection of this nation by reducing the role we play in world affairs. We can start by expelling the UN headquarters from New York and our involvement therein.

Couldn’t agree more.

Just thought of another fun thing with the saudis. Its illegal for women to drive in SA, but once they cross the bridge into bahrain, they can drive. Picture a woman, who has a fucking veil that covers her entire face but a narrow slit at her eyes, driving, and changing lanes. Fucking hilarious.

Just thought of another arab hypocrite story too. So, my buddy was picking a bunch of us up from a bar in a van, 8 or 9 of us. Pulls out into the street, accelerates, and like 10 seconds later, a saudi driving a brand new mercedes slams into the back of the van. No one was hurt, everyone climbs out of the van, as does the saudi (you can always tell its a saudi because of the lisence plates). The cops show up, the saudi is visibly drunk, our driver completely sober. They give my buddy 2 different breathalizers, STILL don’t believe he hasn’t been drinking, so they take him down to the police station to give him another one before letting him go. The Saudi? got back into his busted up car and drove off. No sobriety test, no breathalizer. Keep in mind that in Bahrain, its considered a DUI if you blow anything other than a .000, they take your ass to jail.

The Saudis arent the only ones like that though. The bahrainis, the Sunnis at least, are almost as bad, especially when it comes to work. In the shipyard over there, we always had a couple guys who sat in the shade under the boat all. fucking. day. Never lifted a finger, never broke a sweat, just sat there, chain smoked, and talked among themselves. One of my friends asked them what their job was, and they were “supervisors” but we never saw them, one single time, actually give direction to a TCN about work to be done, inspect anything, nothing. Come to find out, from one of the head guys, they are required by law to hire a certain number of bahrainis, and pay them the equivlelent of about 15/hour, but they can’t make them actually work. Meanwhile, the TCNs, essentially their slaves, got paid about 2.5 BD a day(about 8 dollars) for backbreaking manual labor in the 110+ degree sun, for working a 12 hour day.

The kuwaitis that I encountered were all, to a person, genuinely nice people, unless you were in front of them on the highway and they wanted to go past you. Much better peole than the saudis. Interesting thing about driving in those countries, NONE of the vehicles have speed governors on them, so the vehicle goes however fast the engine is capable of pushing them. I remember doing about 105 in a denali down the highway in kuwait, and this fuckin guy passes me over the rumble strips on the side of the road in a mercedes maybach, and the funniest part was, there was a kid, maybe 3 years old, is standing on the back seat, holding the front headrest, staring up at me. 1 year in all those places, did not see one single child car seat.
I actually had a kuwaiti guy buy me and a friend some krispy kream one time. We got to the kiosk outside the grocery store, just buying coffee and a couple donuts, mainly because we were so surprised to see the krispy kream in fucking kuwait, and all we had was US and bahraini cash, and credit cards, but they only accepted kuwaiti dinar. We apologized, and turned to leave, and the guy behind us in line bought it all for us, refused to take our money, and told us to enjoy his country and walked away.

Sorry, Ill quit it with my life story now. …

Anonymous
Anonymous

Given the chance, Obama will always protect and defend Islamic interests as vehemently as he will oppose and attack Christian ones.

The Saud’s are Islamic.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

I remember the Saudis in college in the early ’70’s, they drank and wanted we Anglos to introduce them to females. They were pussy cowards back then and even worse now. Obama is also a pussy coward!

ditchner

Idiocy!!!!

How did Osama Bin Laden and the Saudis turn the towers into dust in mid-air? Who has that kind of technology? Wake up. Open your eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yapQLt4DChg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0L_UgFnGhM

ditchner

A child could see that this was not done with airplanes or any type of known explosives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0L_UgFnGhM

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Good stuff, Gator. Enjoyed the stories. The only Middle Eastern country I’ve been to is Turkey, which isn’t the same as the heart of the region. Istanbul was a great place to spend a few days, especially since I stayed at the Çiragan Palace. I’ve been to Israel as well, but it felt as western as many places in the US.

Ed
Ed

“The Saud’s are Islamic.”

No shit? I had NO fuckin idea.

maxer's mom

I still maintain that if there are 28 pages, they will implicate not just
Saudis and their involvement, but Israel as a prime mover. And it is
about lawsuits, yes? The Saudis aren’t going to take the rap while
the other culprits play dumb.

That was a very very sharp article Mr Gore…it summed it up for now.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Those alleged “hijackers” were working for the CIA to create a “limited hangout”. None of their names were on the passenger manifest of any of the planes; they were being flown remotely. All “evidence” of their existence on the planes was manufactured, chiefly the contents of a bag allegedly belonging to Atta, complete with photos of all the hijackers and a summary of their plans, and a passport of one of the alleged hijackers found on a Manhattan street. BTW a jet engine was also found on the street, but was the wrong type for either of the planes.
We’re continuing to be played, folks.

Israeli, Saudi role in 9/11 covered up by US

starfcker
starfcker
Maggie
Maggie

Wow! I just returned from my first “jump” to your blogspot from TBP and I’m impressed. Having spent some time in “the Kingdom” when flying on an AWACS crew, I can’t help but think you’ve also seen the place in person.

I almost smelled the camel dung aroma that could never quite be eliminated from the villa I was assigned to live in for 6 weeks post Desert Storm.

[FYI: King Faud built a number of small villages out in the desert to bring the Bedouins up to modern living standards. But when his people showed a few Bedouin tribes their “new, air conditioned homes”, the Bedouins pitched their tents in the courtyards (the villas are built in sets of big squares, with several homes sharing a common courtyard. It was beautifully designed, probably by the Bin Laden group). They let the camels and goats settle into the villas and after they got tired of being semi-civilized, they did what their nomadic ancestors had done for thousands of years: They packed up and moved on.

So, after the ELF 1(European Liasson Force) got kicked out of the high class hotel in downtown Riyadh (the first AWACS crew in there got to stay on the palace grounds! Subsequent crews took over the Al Yamamah hotel downtown and that became de facto living quarters for American military personnel for a decade), the Sauds decided that those little villages would make good sleeping quarters for their American military servants. When I arrived, the back door was open and the house was filthy. The other two women sharing my villa arrived the next day. I’d cleaned my room and the kitchen, but even though the three of us scrubbed and scrubbed, we were still finding petrified camel crap the whole time we were there.]

Nice people, these Saudis.

prusmc

I understand that the US takes very little oil from the KSA. Who would buy the sophisticated and expensive weapons systems exported to the world, but for, the Saudi military? Does it really matter if they don’t know how to use them if they pay cash.

James the Wanderer

My Dad had some of the same kind of Bedouin stories – can’t take the desert out of the nomad.

They built some of that housing as a high-rise outside of Riyadh – using typical Western designs, with wall-to-wall carpet, aluminum-framed windows on top hinges, Western beds and toilets. The families who were moved in were unfamiliar with such modern innovations – when they wanted to cook meals, they built fires on the floor, which did it for the carpeting pretty much. To get fresh air, they broke out the windows instead of opening them. I will not address the fates of the beds and bathrooms in a family forum.

After six months, the place looked like a war had passed through, and the Bedouins returned to the desert, where they felt more at home.

Desertrat
Desertrat

From the standpoint of “the good of the world” (or “earth” or “planet”), the Arabs are pretty much useless. But for oil, the GDP of the MENA is about equal to that of Denmark. Basically, statistically insignificant.

Mix in the Wolfowitz Doctrine and Brezhinski’s ideas about a US hegemony and you can get a feel for why selling war toys to the Saudis is a good deal for the military/industrial complex. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are safe havens for the US military to be able to project power into the mid-east–even though we screw that up beyond all reality.

Some forty years ago, Heinlein commented that governments do not exist for the benefit of the government. True here, true in the mid-east.

I’ll add that money has no conscience…

Ghost

@prusmc they hire U.S. trained soldiers as contractors who leave the US military and go work for the Saudis as their mercenaries and servants.

cynic
cynic

What’s the King saying? “No Barry, I don’t want another eunuch. You can take your hands away from your balls, they’re quite safe from me.”

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

@Starfcker: Better check the date on that video, because I can guarantee you it wasn’t shot on 9/11. The only videos of the “hijackers” is when they were doing “dry runs” prior. NO videos of them exist from 9/11.

Big Dick
Big Dick

Sorry by definition you have to have balls to be castrated

Ed
Ed

“What’s the King saying?”

Don’t try to grab my hose again, fagelah. My guards are eager to faack you oppp.

starfcker
starfcker

Westy, you could be right. I remembered seeing some photos from logan years ago, did a quick search, that was all that came up. There were commenters saying the same thing, where’s the time stamp? My case is weak.

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