LET THE DESTABILIZATION BEGIN: Saudi Arabia's substitute dictator, Crown Prince [rolling eyes] Abdullah cautioned the United States that an attack on Iraq may "destabilize the region,"
Reuters reports. That's pretty much the point, Your Royal Evilness. (Note that Reuters mischaracterizes Saudi Arabia as "a key U.S. ally." If the Saudis are a key ally, then why at this very moment is the United States mobilizing to remove Saddam from power in the face of Saudi opposition? The fact is, there's no such thing as a key American ally.)
The United States should destabilize countries ruled by tyrants who are funding lethal attacks on Americans, and taking out Saddam is the first step. After reading
Mark Steyn's list of regional benefits of a Saddamectomy, it's obvious why Abdullah has his robes in a wad. Ousting Saddam, Steyn writes, "means more oil, which means cheaper prices at the pump, which means more pressure on the House of Saud, whose underpants get tightened a notch with every per barrel dollar drop. Thus, Saddam's removal could be seriously crushing. Even without total internal collapse, the less money they're getting from oil the less they have to fund Islamist recruitment in Europe, South Asia and North America, and the more internal dissension there is in the kingdom the more likely their excitable young men are to wage the jihad at home rather than abroad."
Poor, poor Abdullah . . . there might not be a Saudi throne for him to inherit after the United States liberates Iraq. Oh, well. New York City could always use another cab driver.
