Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria

Saudi Prince Bandar Bin Sultan

Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria. Hmmm, what to do, what to do…. We dunno, but someone better get fracking….

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  • Reminds me of the old saying about blind hogs and acorns. Obviously this is yet another failure of the current regime's excuse for a foreign policy.

    BUT, the Saudis are not, and have never truly been our friends. The Saudis have promoted and exported jihad based islam for decades. They are the ones funding anti-American masques right here in our own cities.

    Once we pull EPA down to it's proper size; like eliminate it, we will be better off without the Saudis and Obummer.

  • Look for quagmire to have Air Force 1 fired up so he and Lurch can fly in and kiss all their asses.

    Carter's presidency 2nd and 3rd term.

    • The entitlement mentality have now been expanded to Saudi Arabia, now they feel entitled to having their wars fought for them!

    • Hey, let's not speculate too much about who's packin' whom...fwankly, I thhhink ithh thhe othhher way awound.

  • Obama's foreign policy in three simple rules:

    1. Alienate our (former) allies.
    2. Embolden our enemies.
    3. Destabilize the world.

    Result will be (is) misery and death of hundreds of millions.

    • That is pretty much what history has taught us. Central planners with a certain agenda are too arrogant to learn those lessons.

      • They are soooo smart because they blame all that 'ancient' history stuff on the Catholic Church in particular and all Christians in general and of course Capitalists. Nothing like that will ever happen to people so smart they can't even design a functioning website for under six-hundred and thirty-four million and eleventy dollars of free tax-payer money; you know, the kind that grows on trees and all you have to do to get your hands on it is convince a couple million lazy, brain dead morons that you really, really care about them.

        As for the Saudi Arab dude, why does he remind me so much of Barney Frank?

  • No, they threaten to severe relations, hahahaha!

    This is just like Obama and his government shutdown, the saudomites are bluffing, they are too scared to fight their war themselves.
    You know, they have the backing of Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan (countries that together have 4.5 times the population of Iran) but yet they still want the infidels to do all the fighting for them!