Your right about my forgetting Saudi Arabia. I haven't forgotten them, just on that one post. SA, with a successful Iraq will be in a very peculiar position and one I find intriguing. I think they could do a lot more in hindering terrorist transit of personnel and equipment from SA into Iraq.
The Wahhabism's religious teaching is a real problem for the western world and the source of the terrorist attack personnel on 9/11. The Royal Family has so much control over the citizens of that country, changing it appears next to impossible. There is another possibility and it parallels Iran’s circumstances. It’s citizens will force changes once they see free Iraqi enterprise, freedom, and economic opportunities. I also suspect there is active support for the Sunni insurgency. Some Iraqi Sunni sheiks have started to come around to preferring the coalition forces to the indifferent choice of civilian targets for their bombing victims of Al Qaeda. They are warning our forces about IED locations and turning in the locations where the Al Qaeda terrorists are residing. This is very important and a new recent development. It dovetails with the new surge and might well become the lifeline for a possible solution to getting support at the local level.
CUL
SharonB
