By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and B. Wayne Quist
The perfect storm that the U.S. and the world faces today stems in part from failed Middle East and energy policies over many decades. Throughout this period, the U.S. has traded national security and massive wealth for a steady flow of oil. Saudi Arabia, in return, has used billions of petrodollars to fund the expansion of its repressive Wahhabi-Salafist doctrine throughout the world and funded the terrorist activities of Palestinian groups like the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and HAMAS. At the same time, the U.S. failed to stop the Mullahs in Iran from nuclear proliferation and sponsoring Hamas and Hizballah.
Saudi Arabia has funded the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy to spread Wahhabi-Salafism - the Saudi pseudo-religious political doctrine since the early 1960s. It paid for the indoctrination of generations of Muslims and extremist terrorist groups the world over. Yet, the U.S. has turned a blind eye and linked itself to the Saudis in an increasingly troublesome relationship - purportedly to resolve regional problems, but mostly to keep the oil flowing. Yet, as David Ottaway observes in his new book, "The King's Messenger," the Saudis are increasingly turning to Russia and China as their new oil and gas partners, dumping longstanding relationships with once-favored American oil companies. Read more ...
The perfect storm that the U.S. and the world faces today stems in part from failed Middle East and energy policies over many decades. Throughout this period, the U.S. has traded national security and massive wealth for a steady flow of oil. Saudi Arabia, in return, has used billions of petrodollars to fund the expansion of its repressive Wahhabi-Salafist doctrine throughout the world and funded the terrorist activities of Palestinian groups like the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and HAMAS. At the same time, the U.S. failed to stop the Mullahs in Iran from nuclear proliferation and sponsoring Hamas and Hizballah.
Saudi Arabia has funded the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy to spread Wahhabi-Salafism - the Saudi pseudo-religious political doctrine since the early 1960s. It paid for the indoctrination of generations of Muslims and extremist terrorist groups the world over. Yet, the U.S. has turned a blind eye and linked itself to the Saudis in an increasingly troublesome relationship - purportedly to resolve regional problems, but mostly to keep the oil flowing. Yet, as David Ottaway observes in his new book, "The King's Messenger," the Saudis are increasingly turning to Russia and China as their new oil and gas partners, dumping longstanding relationships with once-favored American oil companies. Read more ...
Source: Terror Finance Blog
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