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Saudi Arabia announced that it is cutting all ties with Iran and has ordered Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours.
I'm sure that policy decision makes some Saudi's feel good, but what good exactly is supposed to come of doing that? Unless one has decided to pursue a combative resolution to one's differences with another, not talking to them isn't going to make coming to a resolution or understanding more likely than will talking to them.
I don't think the Saudi's are entreating for war, but maybe they are. I don't know. Perhaps they just want to put Iran into "time out?" What I'm certain of is that both Saudi Arabia and Iran are effectively the owners of "glass houses," and as such, "stones" aren't what either of them can throw around. Hopefully all they intend and are willing to "throw" is "shade."
I sure hope they aren't "jonesing" for war because that'd be a war the U.S would have to participate in if Saudi Arabia is part of the battlefield. Our economy cannot have Saudi oil fields bombed, and the whole world cannot sustain Saudi and Iranian oil fields being bombed. I could be all for letting the two of them "have at it," but not at the expense of the rest of the world's economies and livelihood.
I'm sure that policy decision makes some Saudi's feel good, but what good exactly is supposed to come of doing that? Unless one has decided to pursue a combative resolution to one's differences with another, not talking to them isn't going to make coming to a resolution or understanding more likely than will talking to them.
I don't think the Saudi's are entreating for war, but maybe they are. I don't know. Perhaps they just want to put Iran into "time out?" What I'm certain of is that both Saudi Arabia and Iran are effectively the owners of "glass houses," and as such, "stones" aren't what either of them can throw around. Hopefully all they intend and are willing to "throw" is "shade."
I sure hope they aren't "jonesing" for war because that'd be a war the U.S would have to participate in if Saudi Arabia is part of the battlefield. Our economy cannot have Saudi oil fields bombed, and the whole world cannot sustain Saudi and Iranian oil fields being bombed. I could be all for letting the two of them "have at it," but not at the expense of the rest of the world's economies and livelihood.