{"id":16119,"date":"2016-01-06T20:08:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16119"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T01:08:40","slug":"enough-already-its-time-to-send-the-despicable-house-of-saud-to-the-dustbin-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16119","title":{"rendered":"Enough Already! It\u2019s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/enough-already-its-time-to-send-the-despicable-house-of-saud-to-the-dustbin-of-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Enough Already! It\u2019s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"entry-meta\"><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"ssba ssba-wrap\">The attached column by Pat Buchanan could not be more spot on. It slices through the misbegotten assumption that Saudi Arabia is our ally and that the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, Spokane WA and Springfield MA have anything to do with the religious and political\u00a0machinations of Riyadh and its conflicts with\u00a0Iran and the rest of the Shiite world.<\/div>\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>Nor is this\u00a0only a\u00a0recent development. In fact, for\u00a0more than four decades Washington\u2019s middle eastern policy has been dead wrong and increasingly counter-productive and destructive. The crisis provoked this past weekend by the 30-year old hot-headed Saudi prince,\u00a0who is son of the King and\u00a0heir to\u00a0the throne, only clarified what has long been true.<\/p>\n<p>That is, Washington\u2019s Mideast policy is\u00a0predicated on the assumption that the answer to high oil prices and energy security is deployment of the Fifth Fleet to the Persian Gulf. And that an associated alliance with one of the most corrupt, despotic, avaricious and benighted tyrannies in the modern world is the lynch pin to regional stability and US national security.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could be further from the truth. The House of Saud is a scourge on mankind that would have been eliminated decades ago, save for Imperial Washington\u2019s deplorable coddling and massive transfer of arms and political support.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the answer to high oil prices is high oil prices. Could anything not be more obvious than\u00a0today when crude oil is hovering around $35 per barrel notwithstanding a near state of war in the Persian Gulf?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough Already! It\u2019s Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History The attached column by Pat Buchanan could not be more spot on. It slices through the misbegotten assumption that Saudi Arabia is our ally and that the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, Spokane WA and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5979,2120,6618,522,588,592,11536,1246,701],"class_list":["post-16119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-contracorner","tag-david-stockman","tag-house-of-saud","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-oil-price","tag-pat-buchanan","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16120,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16119\/revisions\/16120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}