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U.S. SETS SAUDI STABILITY AS PRIORITY
2004-12-02
The U.S. military has set the stability of Saudi Arabia as a key goal in 2005.
That sounds encouraging...
U.S. officials said the Defense Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have determined that the stability of Saudi Arabia would be a priority over the next year. They said Saudi stability and improved U.S. relations with Riyad were vital for Gulf regional security and American interests in the Middle East. The U.S. agenda has been relayed to Saudi Arabia by both the Pentagon and military. Officials said that over the next few months the Bush administration would seek to accelerate efforts to improve military and security cooperation with Riyad. During his visit to Riyad over the weekend, U.S. Central Command chief Gen. John Abizaid discussed plans to expand military cooperation with Saudi Arabia. Abizaid said the top priorities of the U.S. military in 2005 included U.S. help to Saudi Arabia for the war against Al Qaida.
And Abizaid was calling the other day for tougher actions against Salafism...
Is that "stable" in the sense of "Yasser Arafat stable"?
Posted by:Fred

#7  Bingo.
Posted by: Fred   2004-12-02 10:42:54 AM  

#6  Dead = stable.
Posted by: BH   2004-12-02 10:07:45 AM  

#5  I'm with SPoD. Stabilization should mean "get with the program or prepare to be a glass impurity". Another Saudi-heavy 9/11 is going to make Afghanistan/Iraq look like a footnote.
Posted by: Tom   2004-12-02 8:51:44 AM  

#4  I think they get it, but can't put the moves on SA due to the situation with oil. As long as SA controls the biggest spigot, prudence recommends that Bush and Co. move carefully. Someone (I forget who) has noted that SA is slowly being totally surrounded by US proxies.
Posted by: Ptah   2004-12-02 8:43:14 AM  

#3  I would consider fused sand and dirt the only stability I can accept.

These bastard are funding most of the crap going on all over teh world. Bush and Washington don't get it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-12-02 1:41:36 AM  

#2  There are at least two ways to look at this:

1. stable in 2005...but not necessarily beyond.

2. the current situation in Saudi Arabia is inherently unstable, and the U.S. DoD intends to help S.A. achieve real stability.

Not to forget mojo's kind of stability. If I were a prince, I would be feeling distinctly uncomfortable just now. If I were one of the lower orders, uncomfortable wouldn't begin to describe it -- but I'm funny that way.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-12-02 1:41:24 AM  

#1  "Soon, you'll achieve the stability you strive for,
in the only way that it's granted:
a place among the fossils of our time..."
-- Jefferson Airplane
Posted by: mojo   2004-12-02 12:16:50 AM  

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