[tgraham]

Last time I checked a lot of that Saudi wealth sits in dollar denominated assets. Good luck with the devaution!

[devoply]

Not only that the US are big fans of "freedom" and regime change for the sake of "freedom" when people want to ditch the dollar.

[thefounder]

You kill two birds with one stone but I soubt they will invade SA anytime soon. It would be huge mistake...and for what?

[ilaksh]

The US doesn't need to invade Saudi Arabia because it already has a major Air Force base there.

[devoply]

Yes or you dress up genocide and usurping people's resources and pretend as if that's the case.

[thefounder]

Let's face it: who likes dictatorships? To overthrone a regime there is a price to be paid and nobody will pay that price unless there is something to gain(i.e economically or geo-political). I'm ok with that as long as it's done right(which was not case with Iraq) but let's not pretend that it's moral to let these pesky dictators die by natural causes.

[jacobush]

Sometimes we have not developed the methods yet to remove the cancer without seriously hurting the patient. (The country.)

That's just life. There should be a Hippocratic oath for geopolitical intervention.

[close04]

In a country's case "the cancer" always has to be replaced with something. The US definitely has no working recipe for that, as several decades have shown.