He is not a subject of the Saudi King??
Obama working hard to keep your gas prices affordable.
Fuck all todo with gas but more with a strong presence in the middle eastern slaughterhouse, remember US is on the verge to be completely independent in regards to oil, but somebody still needs to keep these sand guy[/color]s in check.
The US will never be energy-independent. There's no profit in it. Exporting US oil, while importing other countries' oil, will make more money in this ridiculous economic system.But yes, it is also for having a strong ME presence. Because that will be the oil that the US will keep importing while exporting its own oil.
Good management is all about looking and planing for the future, who knows whats going to happen when the US and coalition forces move out of Afghanistan - Israel seems to be hells bend to get in a good old clusterfuck with Iran with the potential to go super nova, Syria is undecided and who knows what effect this could have on the neighboring countries like turkey and subsequently NATO.In the future America might not get any oil from the fucking A-Rabs but might have to go as far as to quench their energy thirst via local sources.
Turkey has already made it's choice, it has become a western country. That might seem odd with Erdogan and AKP being "islamists" albeit turkish islamists which make them probably less zealous religiously than a Saoudi atheist. It will stay clear of any trouble; look at the incident with Israël, thing got quickly settled down. The Israel/iran thing is a whole other problem: Netanyahu has used fear mongering for political reasons mainly and also because the Israeli society has trouble right now amidst a lot of internal divisions. Palestinians are no longer a good enough source of fear. Ironically, Iran is doing the exact same thing. There's no way Iran will attack Israel but those speeches enable them to switch the focus on other things then the social and economical problems the Iranian society is living right now. Saoudi Arabians would love to see Israel attacking Iran as they have the most to fear in case Iran gets it's bomb. On the other side, Israel is plenty happy with the stupidity of Arab countries who are unable to get along, much less to put pressure on Israel to solve the Palestinian problem (let's just remember how Jordan has treated Palestinians and what would happen there if there was a viable Palestinian state).
A gesture of good will and friendliness. Why read too much into it?
Because that guy owns him... he owned Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagen, Carter, Nixon... All the presidents since the US agreed to "protect the Saudis" as long they sell their oil in US Dollars... duhhh
One act of kindness or generosity disarms your enemies. Deception my friend, he is about to nuke them