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2015-01-26 Arabia

Abdullah is Dead. ISIS has an opportunity to flip the Kingdom. Here's how.

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Posted by Hupineger Glomomp0025 2015-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Might happen.

If it does, SA is going to dearly wish they had got under an Israeli nuclear umbrella, as Iran will be in there like a seagull on a dead prawn.

Posted by phil_b 2015-01-26 01:34|| 2015-01-26 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 According to reports, Salman is a drolling oatmeal eating Alzheimer's victim with little cognitive power and almost zero short term or mid term memory.

He could be in Nairobi for all he knows right now.

How do you have a foreign policy with a country ruled by a king with dementia...no wait didn't we try that with Idi Amin????

Posted by Mystic 2015-01-26 01:37|| 2015-01-26 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 How do you have a foreign policy with a country ruled by a king with dementia...no wait didn't we try that with Idi Amin????Posted by Mystic

With the foreign policy of the U.S. today, host nation 'dementia' might be a feature vs a bug.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-26 01:46|| 2015-01-26 01:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe it will happen as the writer outlined. Maybe not. So far ISIS has made inroads into countries that are very shaky at best; namely Syria and northern Iraq. The Saudis might not be such a pushover. ISIS has had difficulty when there is an organized military pushback such as that mounted by the Peshmerga.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-26 12:01|| 2015-01-26 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 It may be that SA is keeping oil prices very low as a hedge against ISIS attacking them. They are betting that the U.S. and others would be more likely to come to their aid.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-26 12:07|| 2015-01-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

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