Haha you guys are fools if you think America has to attack Saudi Arabia. You DO KNOW that the Saudi Monarch is only alive because of American backup right? If it were up to their people the Royal Family would be getting dragged through the streets of Riyadh on horses right now. All America would have to do is fund money for a rebel faction and sit back and watch.

America sends all the aid in the world to autocratic regimes in the mideast, as long as they do oil trade with them. You don't think it's weird that Saudis pay more than twice as much for oil in their own country than the Americans do in the US? Yeah because the royal family there lets American companies do the drilling cuz they're lapdogs. Hell even Saddam and his Baath Party took power through a CIA backed coup. America doesn't give a trout about democracy. If Arabs and Latinos had real democracies where the hell would America get its lion's share of the oil from? They'd have to pay for it just like the rest of the world

Look at Latin America, the American backyard, trouthole. Mideast, trouthole. Central Asia (the "stans"), trouthole. Africa, trouthole. Anywhere the US gets involved in regime changes, becomes a trouthole, but as long as that new regime does what they say. North Korea doesn't matter to the US as much because they have nukes of course, and they got no oil!! But tell me, who was the bigger threat? Some backwards Arab country with barely enough capability to attack a neighbor or an extremely hostile nuclear communist power developing nuclear warheads that can reach the American west coast? Just remember that you can't be fair and just and still be the most powerful country in the world. Oil is the key to being #1, and to get that oil you have to be a major ing asshole.