they are, in many ways, contributing to. what s going on? why do you think they suddenly part of it, the mystery to me, is they ve suddenly gotten very active and activist in these ways. they ve tried to be active in syria. this has been going on for the last couple of years they are afraid to death of iran. they saw syria as an opportunity to give the an ally a black nose, or a bloody nose, and they thought we were going to help them. fund the rebels against assad. so they have, as we would say in texas, they put their foot on the head of a rattlesnake. assad. and we re not helping them. so they can t take their foot off, and they can t crush him. they re caught, i think, in a bad trap. i think for the saudis, things haven t looked as dangerous as they do now, probably since the
the saudi arabians a lot. saudi arabia is the principle ally. a huge amount of money flows. what did you make of the saudi decision? after lobbying for it, they turned around and said they the saudis were disturbed by something more than just that related to the u.n. security council seat. i think that if the united states was going to make an opening to iran, it should have taken it into confidence. that wasn t done. the saudis feel they do not have the kind of rapport with president obama, the leaders don t have the rapport with president obama that they re used to having in the white house. they don t like being taken for granted. when you look at saudi arabia these days, and what it s doing in syria in other places, there does seem to be something almost reckless, though, in saudi policy, with the funding all kinds of jihadis. they re funding a huge a huge amount of instability in syria. this can t be and it s all part of this sunni-shia schism they are, in many ways, con
saudi arabiaens a lot. saudi arabia is the principle ally. a huge amount of money flows. what did you make of the saudi decision? after lobbying for it, they turned around and said they the saudis were disturbed by something more than just that related to the u.n. security council seat. i think that if the united states was going to make an opening to iran, it should have taken it into confidence. that wasn t done. the saudis feel they do not have the kind of rapport with president obama, the leaders don t have the rapport with president obama that they re used to having in the white house. they don t like being taken for granted. when you look at saudi arabia these days, and what it s doing in syria in other places, there does seem to be something almost reckless, though, in saudi policy, with the funding all kinds of jihaddies. they re funding a huge a huge amount of instability in syria. this can t be and it s all part of this sunni-shia schism