Two speak­ers in the Amer­i­can Demo­c­ra­tic Con­ven­tion attacked Saudi Ara­bia. That means we will see a real new Saudi era and a new equa­tion in the Mid­dle East.

Hillary Clin­ton

The biggest deficit in our nation’s his­tory. Money bor­rowed from the Chi­nese to buy oil from the Saudis.

Brian Schweitzer

At the same time, bil­lions of dol­lars that we spend on all that for­eign oil seems to end up in the bank accounts of those around the world who are openly hos­tile to Amer­i­can val­ues and our way of life.

3 Comments

  1. Wrong. The “new Saudi era” will hap­pen when con­trol of oil is no longer impor­tant. If Obama is right, that will hap­pen 10 years from now, when solu­tions for energy come more directly from the sun. Except Obama is wrong — it will take a lot longer than that. But in the mean­time don’t think that US pol­icy is going to turn on what peo­ple say in order to get into office. Brian Schweitzer just wants the US to switch to coal because Mon­tana is a huge coal field. The Clin­tons are smarter but they lie for effect — Hillary was only try­ing to inject some anti-Chinese sen­ti­ment into the mix. The Clin­tons are 100% behind the US pol­icy (agreed to by both US Democ­rats and US Repub­li­cans) that says — the Saudis are Ok because they do what we want — and we will invade if any­body tries to behave dif­fer­ently. i.e. Sad­dam nation­al­iz­ing Iraq oil, etc. Bill Clin­ton is actu­ally just as respon­si­ble, per­haps more respon­si­ble for the Iraq inva­sion, than George Bush was. The US pol­icy is that mid­dle east­ern oil is strate­gic and it must stay in the hands of the USA. It will be a very long time before that changes.

  2. JOHN
    I will explain in a post soon why the com­ing years are not very promis­ing for the Saudis.

  3. Thank you for that sort of report already, LB, that’s def­i­nitely more than desir­able at the moment.

    We are thank­ful for your deliv­ery already.

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New equation in the Middle East

This article was written August 27th, 2008, with the mathematical number of 3 contributions.