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... commercial quantities of oil on the eastern shores of Saudi Arabia. ... did not overly trouble American ... America, Oil, and War in the Middle East;- ... we attempt to show the modern definition of the Middle East, but in the world of geography, ... Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab ...
- The Middle East [note 1] (also called ... Mass production of oil began around 1945, with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates having large ...I wasn't able to quote from online easily even though I am a subscriber to Time Magazine and have a copy right here next to me:begin quote from:
An Unstable Saudi Arabia Could Mean Big Trouble for the Middle East
Not so long ago, the saga of the House of Saud still worked as a Soap Opera. The setting was epic, the libretto compelling: an ambitious patriarch in the 18th Century wins control of the Arabian Peninsula by striking a deal not with the devil but with the armies of a religious fanatic, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al Wahhab' founder of the ultraconservative branch of Sunni Islam called Wahhabism. Centuries later, when oil is discovered beneath the desert wastes, a successor enters into another alliance, with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt receiving Abdul Aziz ibn Saud in 1945 on the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal, where the King's party insisted on sleeping in the tents they pitched on the deck of the U.S.S. Murphy.
The conflict embedded in the story was shunted into the background for decades, while the spotlight tracked aging monarchs who crossed stages in robes that masked both royal girth and a descent into empty pageantry. Then came 9-11, and the news that 15 of the 19 hijackers who had struck the U.S. were Saudi. In 2013, surging U.S. oil production passed Saudi Arabia's.
Now there's the kingdom's Jan. 2 execution of 47 prisoners, further destabilizing a Middle East that Saudi Arabia long boasted it had under control. The most prominent victim was Nimr al-Nimr, a cleric and nonviolent activist for Saudi Arabia's oppressed Shi'ite minority. His beheading enraged the Saudis' great Shia Rival, Iran, where hard line thugs promptly pillaged the Saudi Embassy. Riyadh responded by severing relations with Iran. The resulting uproar diverted attention from the quieter development: the House of Saud had become unmoored. There's been 70 years of idle and completely erroneous speculation that the Saudis were unstable," says Charles Freeman, a former U.S. Ambassador to Riyadh. "This is the first time that they might be."
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An Unstable Saudi Arabia Could Mean Big Trouble...
to read the rest of the article likely you will have to buy a copy of Time which says, "How Trump Won" which seems strange to me because he hasn't really won anything yet, just the polls for Republicans and that's all. He hasn't even won any of the primaries for Republicans yet.
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