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IS heads for Saudi oil wells : Comments

By Claude Salhani, published 15/9/2014

What makes IS powerful today is the fact that they laid out their military strategy based on where oil fields are located. The fact that they went after northeast Syria and northern Iraq is not coincidental by any means.

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"The Saudi leadership has a unique form of religious credibility and legitimacy, which will make it far more effective than other governments at delegitimizing ISIS's monstrous terrorist ideology."
Is this true? Not the bit about ISIS's 'monstrous terrorist ideology', but the bit about 'a unique form of religious credibility and legitimacy'.
I wonder if the House of Saud has not permanently blotted its standing in the Islamic world by cooperating with the US and Israel militarily, while displaying a marked affinity for ostentatious wealth and the enjoyment of spending it in the West's flesh pots.
Which is not to say that I think ISIS will start licencing women drivers or promoting voluntary veiling or any other moderate religious activity within the Islamic faith, but I do wonder if they might not have the ear of the Arab street. Moon of Alabama is leading with an interesting post on this topic this morning.
As for the oil, and why wouldn't ISIS head for the Saudi oil fields. Everyone else is. That's the prize over there. Had they not opened their campaign by targeting the Syrian and Iraqi oil fields, would they even rate a mention? Beheadings the West can live with, but a threat to the oil supply will get those Coalition of the Willing's jets in the air every time.
Posted by halduell, Monday, 15 September 2014 7:52:37 AM
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The IS attacking the Saudi's is poetic justice.
They themselves may not have directly created IS but it was their religious cronies who did, with money gifted them by the Sauds.
Let the Arabs fight this battle, the more damage they do to each other and themselves the easier it will be for the West in the inevitable final confrontation.
The Saudi religious sect, the Wahhabi, have been promoting and funding fundamentalism world-wide, the fact that it has now come back to bite them on the posterior is downright delightful, one almost wants to cheer IS on!
Posted by G'dayBruce, Monday, 15 September 2014 8:12:30 AM
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Isil Heads for Saudi oil wells! And all while we, blind servant to OPEC? Continue to import 95% of ours, much of it coming by ship and increasingly perilous sea voyages, to us; or should that read, our offshored refineries!
And possibly the very first targets of choice of regional Muslim miscreants!?
They'd surely be mine, if the shoe was on the other foot!
And all happening or possible, because we are burdened with blustering bumbling blindfolded ideologues, who can only mutter moronic mantras, like that old hoary chestnut, the Government has no business in business.
It should be set to music (the Mexican hat dance) so they can all sing it, while dancing around the maypole!
[Look. the most modern war planes, subs, ships, tanks, transport trucks and A.P.C'c are just so much, at extreme risk, metal, if they are forced to stay on/in the tarmac/vehicle pool/harbor, for lack of fuel!]
Fundamentally flawed ideology clung to, like a small child's security blanket; in spite of the fact, when our government was very seriously in business, we were the third wealthiest nation on the planet, and a creditor one at that.
We probably have, given the sheer prevalence on identifying mystery oil slicks, hydrocarbon resources to our immediate north, to quite possibly rival the entire and increasingly volatile M.E.
[Neither Curtain or Chiefly would have locked it up and left it there! But that was when we still had a light on the hill to see/steer a course by!]
It's not just the Saudi oil Fields that are at risk, but the Suez canal and or, the straights of Hormuz as well; not to mention our ability, to just defend our own soil!
Don't just do something, stand there!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Monday, 15 September 2014 11:43:51 AM
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This is problem for the middle east to solve, they need to stop looking for someone else to do their dirty work and own up to the problems the have created for themselves.

For the rest of us, lets sit back and watch evolution do its work.

Survival of the fittest, I say.

Should they bring the fight to our shores, then I am for the Genghis Kan method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare#Early
Posted by AdrianM, Monday, 15 September 2014 12:26:51 PM
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Well interesting, I did not realise they had designs on Saudi Arabia.
It makes sense in some ways, but how would they stop the Saudis doing
a destruction job on the oil plants ?
They would have to take over untouched wells and terminals.

Any refusal to supply or any risk of destruction would bring the
European armies down on them quick smart.
Forget the US they only get a small percentage from the Middle East.
The Singapore refineries seem to get most of their supply from the
Gulf with some from Vietnam.
If it only affected Saudi output, it would be bad enough but if it
affected Iraq's southern fields and Iran then--;
Whatever happens any attack into Saudi Arabia will bring down the
whole world, including the US and probably China onto them.

To not react would see a total collapse of all world economies.
You could not pull the Gulf output off the market without that effect.
Posted by Bazz, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 1:23:44 PM
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