Analyst's note: What is reported here is not a well thought out strategy, nor will it be viewed as an action of neutrality. It will continue to put America in peril. Will we never learn? If so, at what expense?
Just for starter, it would have been good if our politicians had read the Shariah, the Threat to America: An exercise in competitive analysis, Report of Team 'B' II, Welcome Letter to the new Congressmen: Jihad 101 , Islam 101 and U.S. has Oil, Oil and More Oil: Why are We Funding Our Enemy? The article Inside Job? ... Farrakhan, Gadhafi supported U.S. terrorist group would have also been well advised reading.
Those in Washington D.C. continue to demonstrate that they understand neither our U.S. Constitution or our Islamist jihadist enemies being driven ultimately by Iran, working with such forces as the Muslim Brotherhood who all operate with a Salifist / Wahabbist baseline ideology out of Saudi.
"Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi Kingdom, already facing a "day of rage" from its 10 per cent Shia Muslim community on Friday, with a ban on all demonstrations, has so far failed to respond to Washington's highly classified request, although King Abdullah personally loathes the Libyan leader, who tried to assassinate him just over a year ago.
Washington's request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply involved in the Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, gave immediate support to American efforts to arm guerrillas fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan in 1980 and later – to America's chagrin – also funded and armed the Taliban.
But the Saudis remain the only US Arab ally strategically placed and capable of furnishing weapons to the guerrillas of Libya. Their assistance would allow Washington to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain – even though the arms would be American and paid for by the Saudis.
[....]But Saudi Arabia is already facing dangers from a co-ordinated day of protest by its own Shia Muslim citizens who, emboldened by the Shia uprising in the neighbouring island of Bahrain, have called for street protests against the ruling family of al-Saud on Friday.
After pouring troops and security police into the province of Qatif last week, the Saudis announced a nationwide ban on all public demonstrations.
Shia organisers claim that up to 20,000 protesters plan to demonstrate with women in the front rows to prevent the Saudi army from opening fire.
If the Saudi government accedes to America's request to send guns and missiles to Libyan rebels, however, it would be almost impossible for President Barack Obama to condemn the kingdom for any violence against the Shias of the north-east provinces.
Thus has the Arab awakening, the demand for democracy in North Africa, the Shia revolt and the rising against Gaddafi become entangled in the space of just a few hours with US military priorities in the region."
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