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Israel cannot bomb Saudi Arabia
2012-01-22
Signing of nuclear cooperation pact between China and Saudi Arabia was a watershed event. It was one thing when Saudis purchased several nuclear weapons from Pakistan, and totally different when they decided to master the entire nuclear cycle themselves.
The Saoodis mastered the entire nuclear cycle? When?
Saudi monarchy is doomed as any monarchy. Saudi moderates are doomed in the short term as any moderates in Arab countries. Saudi nuclear scientists will fall under the rule of Muslim radicals.

After a decade of military nuclear program, Israeli still finds it politically problematic to bomb Iran, perhaps the most radical country on earth. Much less we would be able to attack nuclear infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, a backbone of the world oil supply. Our chances are specifically minimized by the Saudi claim that it needs nuclear weapons to protect its oil sources, thus the world's oil supply.

Iran will have to quickly act to realize its nuclear advantage. Suffering years of isolation in pursuit of nuclear weapon only to see it balanced by Saudi nuclear capability is a loss of unimaginable proportions to ayatollahs. Saudi nuclear program can well trigger Iranian nuclear strike. It remains to see where the strike will land.
Posted by:tipper

#4  Given all the Muslim countries around Saudi Arabia that are under threat or influence from pro-Nukulaar, pro-"Arab Spring" Iran + Radical Islam, HARD TO SEE HOW THE KSA CAN AVOID DOMINANCE, IFF NOT DIRECT TAKEOVER, BY THE ANTI-MONARCHY RADICALS???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-01-22 19:12  

#3  I suspect the warheads, like the Pakistani warheads, will be rotated back to East Asia for maintenance.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-01-22 16:41  

#2  Why not?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-01-22 16:29  

#1  Saudi Arabia has a wonderful fleet for its air force to play with, not one of which would get off the ground were it not for hired kufr mechanics, or so I'm told. Mr. Wife spoke of his company's factory, staffed entirely by foreigners except for the figurehead Saudi department heads, who wandered in periodically for a coffee break and to sign off on things already decided. What odds the clever graduates of the Saudi king's co-ed university will be able to do the required frequent and persnickety maintenance of the nuclear cycle, let alone the even more persnickety maintenance of actual nuclear weapons?
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-01-22 13:53  

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