Enough Already! It's Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner,
The recent column by Pat Buchanan could not be more spot on. It slices through the misbegotten assumption that Saudi Arabia is our ally and that the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, Spokane WA and Springfield MA have anything to do with the religious and political machinations of Riyadh and its conflicts with Iran and the rest of the Shiite world.
Nor is this only a recent development. In fact, for more than four decades Washington’s middle eastern policy has been dead wrong and increasingly counter-productive and destructive. The crisis provoked this past weekend by the 30-year old hot-headed Saudi prince, who is son of the King and heir to the throne, only clarified what has long been true.
That is, Washington’s Mideast policy is predicated on the assumption that the answer to high oil prices and energy security is deployment of the Fifth Fleet to the Persian Gulf. And that an associated alliance with one of the most corrupt, despotic, avaricious and benighted tyrannies in the modern world is the lynch pin to regional stability and US national security.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The House of Saud is a scourge on mankind that would have been eliminated decades ago, save for Imperial Washington’s deplorable coddling and massive transfer of arms and political support.
At the same time, the answer to high oil prices is high oil prices. Could anything not be more obvious than today when crude oil is hovering around $35 per barrel notwithstanding a near state of war in the Persian Gulf?
Here’s the thing. The planet was endowed by the geologic ages with a massive trove of stored energy in the form of buried hydrocarbons; and it is showered daily by even more energy in the form of the solar, tidal and wind systems which shroud the earth.
The only issue is price, the shape and slope of the supply curve and the rate at which technological progress and human ingenuity drives down the real cost of extraction and conversion.
On top of that, the vast resilient forces of the free market have silently, steadily and dramatically improved the energy efficiency of the US economy.
As shown in the long term chart below, energy consumption per dollar of GDP is only about 40% of the level which obtained when Washington’s politicians first started running around like Chicken Little, claiming that the energy sky was falling at the time of the so-called 1973 oil crisis.

Driven by the supply and demand curves of the ordinary processes of economic markets over the last four decades, therefore, the constant dollar price of oil has gone absolutely nowhere. The threat of high oil prices has been a giant myth all along.
The red line in the chart below expresses the world crude oil price in March 2015 dollars of purchasing power. At today’s $35 per barrel it is only marginally higher than it was in 1971 before Nixon slammed shut the gold window and inaugurated four decades of central bank fueled monetary inflation.

The truth is, the long era of the so-called oil crisis never happened. It was only a convenient Washington invention that was used to justify statist regulation and subsidization of energy domestically and interventionist political and military policies abroad.
Back in the late 1970s as a member of the House Energy Committee I argued that the solution to high oil prices was the free market; and that if politicians really wanted to cushion the purely short-term economic blow of a Persian Gulf supply interruption the easy and efficient answer was not aircraft carriers, price controls and alternative energy subsidies, but the Texas and Louisiana salt domes that could be easily filled as a strategic petroleum reserve (called SPRO).
During the Reagan era we unleashed the energy pricing mechanisms from the bipartisan regime of price and allocation controls which had arisen in the 1970s and began a determined campaign to fill the SPRO. Thirty-five years later we have a full SPRO and a domestic and world economy that is chock-a-block with cheap energy because the pricing mechanism has done its job.
In fact, OPEC is dead as a doornail, and the real truth has now come out. Namely, there never was a real oil cartel. It was just the House of Saud playing rope-a-dope with Washington, and its national oil company trying to do exactly what every other global oil major does.
That is, invest and produce at rates which are calculated to maximize the present value of its underground reserves. And that includes producing upwards of 10 million barrels per day at present, even as the real price of oil has relapsed to 50 year ago levels.
What this also means is that Imperial Washington’s pro-Saudi foreign policy is a vestigial relic of the supreme economic ignorance that Henry Kissinger and his successors at the State Department and in the national security apparatus brought to the table decade after decade.
Had they understood the energy pricing mechanism and the logic of SPRO, the Fifth Fleet would never have been deployed to the Persian Gulf. There also never would have been any Washington intervention in the petty 1990 squabble between Saddam Hussein and the Emir of Kuwait over directional drilling in the Rumaila oilfield that straddled their historically artificial borders.
Nor would there have been any “crusader” boots trampling the allegedly sacred lands of Arabia or subsequent conversion of Bin-Laden’s fanatical Sunni mujahedeen, which the CIA had trained and armed in Afghanistan, to the al-Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated 9/11.
Needless to say, the massive US “shock and awe” invasion thereafter which destroyed the tenuous Sunni-Shiite-Kurd coexistence under the Baathist secularism of Saddam Hussein would not have happened, either. Nor would the neocon war mongers have ever become such a dominant force in Imperial Washington and led it to the supreme insanity of regime change in Libya, Syria, Yemen and beyond.
In short, the massive blowback and episodic eruptions of jihadist terrorism in Europe and even America that plague the world today would not have occurred save for the foolish policy of Fifth Fleet based energy policy.
Still, there is an even more deleterious consequence of the Kissinger Error. Namely, it has allowed the House of Saud, along with Bibi Netanyahu’s political machine, to egregiously mis-define the sectarian and tribal conflicts which rage in today’s middle-east.
The fact is, there is no such thing as generic Islamic terrorism. The overwhelming share of the world’s 1.3 billion or so Sunni Muslims are not remotely interested in Jihaddism.
Likewise, the 200 million adherents of the Shiite Muslim confession are not terrorists in any religious or ideological sense. There are about 60 million Shiite in India and Pakistan and their quarrel, if any, is rooted in antagonisms with Hindu-India, not the West or the US.
Similarly, the 80 million Shiite domiciled in Iran, southern Iraq, southern Lebanon and the Alawite communities of Syria have been host to sporadic terrorist tactics. But these occurred overwhelmingly in response to efforts by outside powers to occupy Shiite communities and lands.
That is certainly the case with the 20-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, which gave rise to Hezbollah defense forces. It is also true of the Shiite uprisings in Baghdad and southern Iraq, which gave rise to the various militias that opposed the US occupation.
Moreover, post-1979 Iran has never invaded anyone, nor have the Shiite communities of northern Yemen, who are now being bombarded by Saudi pilots driving US supplied war planes and drones.
In short, there has never been a Shiite-based ideological or religious attack on the West. The anti-Americanism of the Iranian theocracy is simply a form of crude patriotism that arose out of Washington’s support for the brutal and larcenous regime of the Shah—–and which was reinforced during Iraq’s US aided invasion of Iran during the 1980s.
By contrast, the real jihadi terrorism in the contemporary world arose almost exclusively from the barbaric fundamentalism of the Sunni-Wahhabi branch of Islam, which is home-based in Saudi Arabia.
Yet this benighted form of medieval religious fanaticism survives only because the Saudi regime enforces it by the sword of its legal system; showers its domestic clergy with the bounty of its oil earnings; and exports hundreds of millions to jihadists in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Turkey, Iran, Egypt and numerous other hot spots in the greater middle east.
At the end of the day, the House of Saud is also the ultimate inspiration and financial benefactor of the Islamic State, as well. Had it not provided billions in weapons and aid to the Syrian rebels over the last five years, there would be no civil war in Syria today, nor would ISIS have been able to occupy the dusty, impoverished towns and villages of the Upper Euphrates Valley where it has established its blood-thirsty caliphate.
So this weekend’s execution of a Saudi Shiite cleric who never owned a gun or incited anything other than peaceful protest among the downtrodden Shiite communities of eastern Arabia is truly the final straw. It was a deliberate provocation by a reprehensible regime that has so thoroughly corrupted the War Party that it even managed to have Washington shill for its preposterous appointment to head of the UN Commission on Human Rights!
During the last several decades Washington has financed more than $100 billion of arms sales to the House of Saud. Accordingly, there is one simple way to clean the slate in the middle east and put an eventual end to Wahhabi Jihaddism.
That is, cut off arms sales entirely to the Saudi military, which would be grounded within months due to lack of spare parts and support services. Indeed, the mere announcement would send several thousand Saudi princes and their families scurrying for their 747s and escape to Switzerland, London, New York and other fleshpots of the West.
After an abdication by the House of Saud, the Wahhabi clerics would not long survive, and Iran and its Shiite Crescent allies, including Russia, would make short work of the ISIS caliphate.
And whatever government emerged on the Arabian peninsula, one thing is certain. It would need to produce all the oil it can, but at least the proceeds at even today’s $35 per barrel price would have a decent chance of benefiting the nation’s 30 million citizens rather than the unspeakable opulence and decadence of a few thousand princes.
That actually happened in Iran when the mullahs - as religiously rigid and backwards as they might be - overthrew the megalomaniacal tyrant who sat on the Peacock Throne.
It’s time that the House of Saud found its way into the dustbin of history, as well.
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right, try lol
as long as they are backed locally they stay put
they have hundreds of billions russian and western weaponry mix
some say the shia provocations are to keep the noses pointing one way inside saudi arabia, during the budget cuts
S T F R
Sell the Friggen Rally
A watchword for our times.
If SA gets unstable, up goes the price of oil. Buy the frackin' dip.
Swedish whores & blow for me, head & hand chopping Sharia law, for thee.
Good content but the author is seriously sesquipedalian and a tich malapropic
Yes, verbosity is often mistaken as erudition
Maybe the Saudi's will finally join Iran and India in ditching the dollar.
http://www.examiner.com/article/cracks-widen-for-dollar-as-iran-and-india-to-settle-oil-outside-petro-dollar
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
The Daily Economist
here is what the zionazis have wrought. the turks, saudis, israel and qatar support isis and are opposed to assad and the persians. the usa supports isis and the turks, saudis, qatar and israel AND iran. china has been plying those pedo arabs with cute young chinese boys they are now addicted to. the arabs are threatening to turn to china and pay for the yougsters in yuan if the usa doesn't take out the assad and the persians. israel, as usual, is in the background egging the arabs on while supplying congresscritters with drugs, whores and money. since they come so cheaply, the congresscritters are the weakest link but it looks like the homeland zionazis are going to wait until after the election to carry out the plan. that's why they hate trump. trump thinks the wars are stupid and wants to negotiate a peace settlement. the zionazis know he will force the nutandyahoo to comply.
so what will obambam do in the meantime? he doesn't give a shit. in a few months he'll be body surfing at sandy beach and burning some phatties with his brahs.
It's important that we remember that the wars in the Middle East are not only about oil. There are two additional motives for them that we must bear in mind. One is the perceived need to give Israel plenty of room to expand its territory; that is often mentioned in print. The other motive - rarely mentioned - is the perceived need to desensitize the US's domestic police forces.
For oppressive regimes to succeed in maintaining their power over their subjects, they must frighten them physically - first by aggressive policing, and, if that doesn't work, by martial law. America's various domestic police forces are being trained by Israeli commandos to treat the population the way Israel treats its Palestinians.That is generally acknowledged.
The program seems to be working, though perhaps too slowly for the nation's rulers. In case it doesn't succeed quickly enough, martial law will be brought into play, on the excuse of some false-flag event. US troops thoroughly desensitized by their experience in the Middle East and North Africa will be called into service at that point. Watch for it.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2013/11/less-than-human-torture.html
That Greater Israel boogeyman won't fly with anyone who may have noticed that they haven't expanded their territory in almost half a century. If they're going to make it to the Euphrates, at this rate it will be the year 3500 by the time they do, at which point it won't be your problem or mine. Printing it and doing it are endeavors of vastly differing magnitude, and the facts on the ground make it hard to argue that they are doing it.
The list of genuinely expansionist countries in the here and now looks like this: United States, China, Germany... and perhaps Turkey.
South Lebanon, Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza..??
Yeh, no, you're right, those little angels have never encroached on anyone's land or subjected an entire ethnicity of people to subjugation, torture and repression.
Allah bless Greater Israel.
Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza along with the Sinai were captured in 1967. I know that's more years ago than you can count even if you take your socks off, so let me do the math for you: it was 48 years ago. Were you even alive then?
Not only that, but they gave the Sinai back to Egypt a long time ago, and more recently ceded control of Gaza to the Arab Muslims as well. South Lebanon remains part of Lebanon and while they have invaded it several times they have never attempted to annex it.
So in the last 48 years, somehow even though the Jews control everything in the world, the territory controlled by Israel has shrunk considerably and zero progress has been made towards the alleged "Greater Israel" that you would have us so frightened of.
When's this Greater Israel going to happen? In your lifetime?
And what would you have them do with the tiny territories you're so worked up over, anyway? Create an enemy Palestinian state out of the West Bank and Gaza and give it legitimacy, knowing it would inevitably and quickly go to war against them? Give the militarily crucial high ground of the Golan back to a hostile Syria? Should they also slit their own throats to appease you?
Frankly, I don't believe for a second that you give two shits about the way Israel treats the Palestinians. You don't have a word to say about how the Turks treat the Kurds, or what they did to the Armenians. You've been completely silent on the complete elimination of the nation of Tibet, people and culture, by the Chinese. You have never bothered to speak up for the people of South Sudan, or the Copts in Egypt, or any other oppressed or maltreated people anywhere.
The only reason you care about that situation at all is it gives you something to grind your axe against. You're full of 100% pure unadulterated bullshit on this issue and I'm shocked that any person whose mind is active enough to be attracted to this site can be suckered into believing something that is completely contradicted by the indisputable facts on the ground.
Bullshit! Israel is hoping to annex permanently the Golan Heights, conquer Lebonon and detroy Hezbollah and take all their water and good land -and much more. All this turmoil and shit in the ME is instigated and carried out through proxy wars through Isis, the Saudi corrupt regime and the puppet leaders of a zionist occupied government of the USA.
You got me there. The Middle East was such a peaceful place previously, I don't know what I was thinking. All that peace and peace and *wham!* here come the Jews and now everyone's at war when they never were before.
In the last few days I have come to believe and almost posted on another ZH article earlier today that martial law must surely be the goal for the oligarchs concerning the US. I think this was triggered by the reaction of the government to the standoff in Oregon. As is presently being played out white, armed militia members are the focus. They are standing up to the government over the grievances inflicted on the Hammond family. While the Hammonds themselves are not participating in this standoff, the government cannot afford to back down a second time to militia members as it will start a precedence that could be irreversible. The first being the Bundy Ranch episode in Nevada. https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/723
While egregious actions take place throughout the US on a frequent basis resulting in burning, looting, rioting, violating sovereign borders and US law, the reaction is milquetoast and supportive by the government. Likewise the government infringing on freedoms of expression as when someone condemns Islam or criticizes black thugs for disproportionate contribution to crime. With official inaction and acquiescence in response to criminal acts there is a fostering of hate and resentment of whites towards blacks and browns who commit these acts. At the same time, the black community has been herded into ghetto, urban plantations and sustained by minimum handouts to thwart any drive for self determination for a return of their votes, but have been shot, killed, beaten by the white establishment and ignored by the same when the criminal acts are committed by members of their own race.
This may be simplistic but the result is in the US today there is massive hate and loathing of differing entities. For each example there is a equivalent visa versa. Blacks hate whites and browns, browns hate whites and blacks, whites hate browns and blacks, taxpayers hate non taxpayers, rich hate poor, Christians hate Muslims, liberals hate conservatives, straights hate gays, everyone hates bureaucrats...the list of mutual hate could fill pages. Needless to say we are a nation that is not a melting pot but is starting to be more like a cauldron that is beginning to boil over.
I believe that the boiling point is engineered. It is the desire and end result that the oligarchs of power seek. The main temperature control is in the hands of the white, majority and law abiding population. There is a point when this group will say enough is enough to the onslaught of freedoms and rights that are being abused by out of control government.
We walk daily lives as living on eggshells and the symptom is the massive arming by citizens who are preparing for...? There are no specifics to the preparations only a societal gut feeling that the other shoe is about to drop. For the first time there could be civil disobedience by the white race. This is all that is needed for TPTB to act, and that will be martial law at first.
Good post- we are at the precipice of disaster-the elites have hoped that all opposition would fold and we would become willing serfs--slaves. I don't think so.
Let the battle for America begin. We have no choice but to fight.
No shots need or will be fired:
"All groups & troops run on Supply Lines." Even Rebels. They just need to cut their supply lines and keep others from joining, by denying them access to the place.
Suspect that they will leave quietly, eventually.
The vast majority of the US population is already under martial law. Look up "Constitution-free zones" - if you're within 100 miles of a coast or border, as 2/3rds of Americans are, you live in one.
A-freaking-MEN. Nuke the commie bastards!
This is the "grand bargain" by and between the Israelis and Americans.
The threat of Saudi involvement in 9/11 motivates them to work as as proxy to fight Iran and its Bomb. In time, after the war exhausts the House, the report will be reveled and the US/UK will intercede on the peninsula again.
UK/US gets the oil.
Israel gets more land, energy market access and "better" security.
20 year plan.
Bush/Cheney , the Mossad and neocons did 911-with saudi financing and a few patsies
"...to the al-Qaeda terrorists who perpetrated 9/11...."
And there you go.
to those running the big show the Sauds are an example to emulate....human rights et al mean nothing unless profits control and power come with the deal if not they'll take the PCPs anyday over any human concerns.
"I set to work to read the Act of Parliament by which the Bank of England was created. The investors knew what they were about. Their design was to mortgage by degrees the whole country, lands...houses....property....labour. The scheme has produced what the world has never saw before....starvation in the midst of abundance" William Cobbett in "The Political Register" July 14th, 1810.
Doesn't that baby faced north korean fella with the soup bowl haircut have a new toy he is itching to use on someone?
Maybe he needs a little more cash in his swiss bank account. The whole world already knows he can't be held responsible for anything he does...
Thinking that to understand how the world is run and how decisions are made, you are better off looking for connections between bloodlines after the diaspora/infiltration of the ancient Egyptians into Europe rather than country border lines.
Major Kong is still the right solution for the entire Middle East and North Africa.
The bastards have 'the fuckin bomb' from Pakistan, and they'll use it before they give up their Kingdom...
Calling these cockroaches the "House of Saud" is annoying and incorrect. They are the Saud family, the pack of thugs who killed their way into running a nation called Arabia.
Ya gotta love David Stockman.
He's like a one man University. With numbers as his wingman. You might dispute some of his conclusions, but you better have some numbers to back you up because you can bet he has them. Loads of them.
One of the rare voices a generation will produce that is well worth listening to and learning from because he lets the numbers tell the story. This alone makes him an unimpeachable witness that any lawyer would hope to have take the stand.
Totally agree Shovel. Well said.
I, for one, would love to sit in a room and watch Stockman work for a day or so...maybe even a week. My own I.Q. would nudge up a point or two I'd bet.
Stopping terrorism at its source and addressing all the things Stockman mentions requires the Bolshevik solution. Just as there will never be any more Romanov Tsars because they were all buried in eastern Russia, Seal teams 6, 7, 8 and 9 need to be sent in to remove (permanently) the whole House of Saud (all 2,000 of them) and their Wahhabi religious fanatics.
The House of Saud and Wahhabism are barbarous reminders of the 12th century (and have no archaeological value like the relics they destroy) that need to be removed forever from the 21st century. Execute them, cremate them, and dump the ashes in the Indian Ocean (environmental laws be damned). Seal team 10 can take care of the Qatari role family.
I believe that the previous king was prob'ly murdered by the ambitious present establishment at the behest of USA as it always topples heads of states.
These present guys in power have no morals & act like criminals.
And as a mockery on the face of all humanity , satanic USA has installed Saudi Arabia as head of UN Human Rights Panel
Shameless ... but what can you expect from a man (Obamma) who is openly promoting hellbound values of homosexuality , drug abuse & violence
As Putin liberated Crimea from an insane regime in Kiev, Iran could liberate Saudi's eastern province from the nutcases in Riyadh. They would be welcomed by the local Shiites as liberators.
With the Saudi's oil revenue gone, thousands of terrorist recruitment centers around the world (commonly known as "mosques") would have to find new sponsors.
Can we finaly be not a Muppet for a moment because al-Qaeda terrorists didn't do 9/11. Even a child can see that today, it was the U.S. itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRZmAK4eug
tell Trump he can have their oil
The House of Saud come closer to resembling the Elders of Zion than any Jews I've ever heard or read about---a gang beholden to a savage religion teaching that their tribe has a mandate from God to enslave mankind, and who have the wealth and power to do it. Bibi Netanyahu can only dream of the power they wield.
And why? Because few industrial nations would have been able to function for long if they had to pay what it cost to get oil out of the ground in civilized countries, short of a public and private debt jubilee In the form of defaults and hyperinflations.
Forced to choose between either abolishing welfare states and reforming their monetary systems or giving the Arabs all the money they needed to buy weapons that would (they were sure) only be used on Jews and other Arabs, governments chose the option that least inconvenienced the banksters that financed their budget deficits and standing armies.
Few things in this world have cost civilization more than cheap labour. One of those few things is cheap Arab oil.
We should just take their shit and blow up Mecca for good. There I fixed it.
There's a historical precedent for doing exactly that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire
By the standards of the day, the Aztec empire was every bit as obscene as the KSA and deserved to be destroyed.
Following the Spanish model, you enlist the enemies of the Saud, and then betray them once victory is achieved. Cake walk.
Mecca and Medina I'd leave alone, though. There's big money to be made in the pilgrimage trade. Something the cruise ship industry should be looking at.
The Shiites and/or the Kurds will attack Saudi. No need for the US or Israel to get involved.
After the past 2 years I have concluded that it is very likely the Saudis have been bribing Western leaders. I cannot understand the BS coming from leadership in terms of support for some political ideolgy. Merkels handling of the Muslim vs woman thing is a prime example. Where is the normal resentment. Who holds their tongue after such behavior?
Not this guy (from 1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85_L1R9VyA&list=PL8WvZFiJpAr2RlVy4BTTse...
Stockman should be President - Like a few of the other older Reaganites (Like Paul Craig Roberts and Buchanan) -they get it-both on economics and foreign policy.
The...House of Saud...is a scourge on mankind that would have been eliminated decades ago, save for Imperial Washington’s deplorable coddling and massive transfer of arms and political support.
Ha-ha-ha! I'm misreading between the dots.
'In short, there has never been a Shiite-based ideological or religious attack on the West"
Really? Iran-sponsered attack on Buenos Aires Jewish Centre? Irananian-sponsered attacks in Bangok and on Israeli tourists in Eastern Europe?
well i'd say amen, except that you're being a little hypocritcal arent you tyler? I mean come on man, if its the falling oil thing that's eating your butt, you should just come out and say that instead of blah blah blah you dont really give a shit about
And what does the USA do about it?, it goes and invades Iraq and Afghanistan....WTF!
BTW, how are the Royal families of France and Russia doing these days?..... chop chop, off with their heads.
I am not sure Washington is worried about the price of oil. Wahsington is worried about the flow of the oil money. As long as the house of Saud is there, oil money will flow to the West in the form of investment and consumption. The replacement of the house of Saud will not be as accomodating. Why , the oil money could then flow to the East and benefit the mass in the middle East . Western economy will take a blow. THAT is what the West is worried about !
"It's Time To Send The Despicable House Of Saud To The Dustbin Of History"
That would be an act of humanity.
I await the day when the despotic, savage barbaric sub-human animals known as the "Saud Royal Family" from the phony "king" downwards are lined up in a row and filmed live being beheaded and their corpses crucified, as they have done to many of their own citizens for no other reason that they dissented from despotism.
Their corpses should be left for the dogs of the street to feast on and their skeletons burned and the ashes tossed in the sewers to eradicate any trace.
That would be a fitting end to one of the worst chapters of cruel despotism this world has known in modern history.
{phew, I'm glad I've got that off my chest (!))
"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
It fits quite well with a comment about Saudi driving skills:
"They went from camels to Cadillacs in 10 years"
The number of road accidents and twisted metal is the consequence. And that's even without women drivers (!)