Obama got a chance to break the US alliance with evil and terror

April 20, 2016, 8:04
Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Text: Said Gafurov
http://www.vzglyad.ru/politics/2016/4/20/806303.html

On Wednesday, Obama will visit Saudi Arabia, where he will hold talks with King. Long-term US alliance with Saudi Arabia finally is breaking at the seams. Ethical claims to this union grows, the White House do not see any sense to maintain obscurantist regime holding on violence, and above all – now cames to light Saudis involved in the September 11 attacks. But whether Obama would use the historic chance?

The last chapter that was published in 2003 report by a bipartisan US Congressional commission on the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 was classified for reasons of "data protection, which are critical to national security." It is said that it contains the information about the involvement in the terrorist attacks of Saudi Arabia, and the US public opinion demanded from the president to declassify 28 pages of the report prior to his visit to Riyadh. In response, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Adel al-Dzhubeyr threatened to "sell the US assets of the Kingdom, if Congress approves the project, allowing to bring to justice the Saudi government for involvement in the September 11 attacks."

And on the eve of the presidential voyage Obama deputy national security aide Ben Rhodes said that among those who financed the terrorists actually were not only rich Saudis unrelated to politics, but also government officials, and members of their families.

The policy of "buy yourself a terrorist"

Among the major experts on the Middle East there is little doubt the links between the Saudis and the terrorists of organizations such as "Al-Qaeda", and although this confidence is based on circumstantial evidence. Such, for example, unimpeded commerce and access to cheap financing Osama bin Laden's family. Or the ability of Riyadh (though not always) to limit Islamist terrorism in some parts of the world, such as it happened during the war in Chechnya, where Russian foreign policy has managed to find convincing arguments for the royal family. In this case it is assumed that the Saudi authorities have forced the terrorists to execute their will not with violence, and bribery, agreeing with their multibillionaires and Islamic funds, funding of terror (not only terror, of course, but also propaganda and that Wahhabi and other radical preachers falsely called "jihad").

It is remarkable how the Saudis denied US accusations of involvement in the organization of the terrorist attacks of September 11. According to them, the Congress commission has not revealed "any evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials were individually funded the organization." That is, there is no longer trying to hide the fact that "not senior" officers and units of the Saudi authorities in the organization of large-scale terrorist attack in the United States may well be involved.

However, in the terrorist attacks against Russia. Egyptian media reported that Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in one of social networks "indirectly attributed to the fall of the Russian aircraft in Sinai to terrorists under his influence." This Prince, born in 1985, apparently quite unafraid and confident in his impunity, even after the declarations of the financing of the destruction of Russian civil aircraft.

"Anywhere in the world, when you put a guy and Minister of Defence, and the heir to the throne when he was only 32 years old, he wanted to show himself. You probably have seen teenagers who want to show that they are adults, and for this to start smoking in public. It is for this reason, I think, the defense minister of Saudi Arabia wants to show himself to say: I'm a man, I'm an adult, - said the former Iranian ambassador to Russia, and now one of the leaders of the Security Council of the Islamic Republic Reza Sajjad. - And I can assure you, no big policy for such action is not necessary. And even many Saudi princes criticized him for his actions, saying that he destroys the royal family, and the whole country. "

So you can not live

Saudi ruling family in its completely archaic, trudnovoobrazimoy in the XXI century of absolute monarchy with such ugly anachronisms as Police Service Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, seized power in a stranglehold. However, the visit of Obama, the Saudi government has shown unprecedented liberalism banning militants Commission to encourage virtue and flog people after the extrajudicial arrests: now the virtuous will be invited to the arrests of local police, and in general - from mid-April it is prescribed to perform their functions in enforcing Islamic rules " kindly and gently ". It is no coincidence the same Sajjad emphasizes: "The Saudi government is now afraid of their people, so they never go on at least some elections in Saudi Arabia."

Earlier, Obama spoke of the ruling families of Saudi Arabia and other monarchies as "freeloaders» (free-riders), reorienting the emphasis of its policy in the region for the resumption of relations with Iran. Prominent Indian expert on international security, MK Narayanan is now even talks about Obama's readiness to be "thrown overboard" Saudi Arabia (as well as Egypt) - a faithful ally of the US for half a century. In Riyadh tried to snap: a prominent Saudi diplomat (later fell into disgrace) Prince Turki bin Faisal during the "chemical crisis" in Syria, Obama described the policy as "drawing lines in the sand." But the dog barks, but the caravan goes: that's Obama managed to get away from trying to impose (including the Middle Eastern monarchies) military strikes on Syria.

And the kingdom had already begun to crumble, and protests are very different in nature. Because dissatisfied with everything disempowered Shi'ite workers, simple Sufis who forbid worship their holy places (the famous Muslim freethinking that turned Islam into a great world religion, in KSA nothing left), located in the hard grip of restrictions of women, young people wishing to dance to modern music, Hejaz multi-billionaire, completely deprived of access to political power, and even members of the royal family itself, fearing that the rigor and lack of basic flexibility of the ruling circles endangers the very existence of the country as a whole.

Moreover, it is known that the royal family is not only hidden, perhaps, sincerely believing Shiites, but even well disguised communists who in Saudi Arabia are automatically recognized to be atheists and the death penalty.

Saudi Arabia was established in the 20s of the twentieth century as a result of the gains of the backward Najd developed neighboring provinces. For a long time it has saved the kingdom from popular uprisings - pro-Iranian, pro-Soviet (in socialist Yemen) or separatist - armed with the support of Great Britain and then the United States. Now Saudi Arabia with its oil wealth Washington covets support, and Obama really do not understand why he needs to maintain this ugly anachronism.

Yes, these Saudi "values" as the monarchy without the slightest element of national representation, the lack of an independent judiciary, the rejection of freedom of conscience, principles and freedom of expression, ownership of all the top positions in the country by members of the same family, the execution of poets and preachers, by cutting off the head, can and will be able to protect the Navy, Marines and Air Force, but whether it will take the American people? And most importantly - is it really going to be the cheapest and most effective means of promoting American interests in the region in the long term? Saudi authorities have chosen themselves policemen solutions to social, economic and religious issues raised by their simplicity, and for the opposition they have experienced, and are said to be skilled executioners.

Meanwhile, US interests can successfully defend not only obscurantists-monarchists, but also liberals. Not only pro-Iranian Shi'ites may raise a rebellion. In the Hijaz, the most developed part of Saudi Arabia, in Mecca and Medina growing discontent and formed clans of billionaires, deprived of access to political power, as an alternative to already cultivated liberal values, civil society, social networking, and even republican ideals, so dear to the American political establishment . It meets the dead of support for the general population, and Turkish newspapers are published with the title "Accustomed to luxury princes decision angered the king about the economy."

But the Saudis have a trump card, which has already put on the table the Foreign Minister Adel al-Dzhubeyr - huge investment in the US economy. For them and for their friends in Washington among the bankers, oilmen, politicians and lobbyists it is good insurance. During the acute financial crisis, when the kingdom's budget was formed with a large deficit, and against the backdrop of huge official and unofficial (but dubbed) internal and external commitments, which are simply not anything else to finance, and low oil market, Saudi Arabia managed to still get into some wars: in Yemen, Syria, Bahrain. However, hopes to stop an internal crisis due to a small victorious war did not materialize. And Yemeni and Syrian campaign failed, and huge amounts of money (the war - it is expensive, and only a victorious war increases the loan) should be written off in loss.

The stability of the dynasty for a long time also guarantee the gerontocracy - a country ruled by old, experienced and well remember your own '70s and' 80s, when the throne tottered beneath them. But now they were replaced by a new generation that is on personal experience only experienced triumphs. The youngest of the world's Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman plunged the country into adventures, from which you now need to find a way out without losing face. Vladimir Putin did not go at it on occasion, and it is possible that the king's meeting with Barack Obama may be the last chance for the prince, especially against the background of disgrace pro-US royal family. Any opal so good that it can at any time be replaced by Tabor (but can also flip).

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Google translation was streamlined only in first part. So be patient.

No chance, because he was groomed to get it.
A fool.

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