The other day Guss wrote this post with the comment:

You have got to be kidding me. When most of the terrorists are from Saudi Arabia, you don’t sell them arms.
These people are not our friends.

I can’t say I disagree with his statement. The following is from The Omega Letter, a subscription only Christian end-times publication. It discusses the ramifications of this military hardware sale from a Christian perspective.

Arming the Jihad

For reasons that few understand and even fewer can articulate, the United States government is considering a $20 billion arms sale to the wellspring and root of Islamic jihadist theology, Saudi Arabia.

According to a senior US defense department official quoted in the Jerusalem Post, “We’ve been working very hard on a Saudi arms package, which we believe is critical to the overarching architecture… to deal with the changing strategic threat from Iran and other forces.”

Speaking before the UN in September, President Bush told the world, “Extremists in your midst spread propaganda claiming that the West is engaged in a war against Islam. This propaganda is false, and its purpose is to confuse you and justify acts of terror.”

But it is the House of Saud itself that is “perverting Islam” and threatening, as the White House correctly puts it, a world in which “our children will face a region dominated by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons.”

Weapons the Bush administration is evidently planning to sell them. Arming the Saudis to deal with Iran is an unthinkably dangerous gamble on more levels than one is comfortable contemplating.

First, the House of Saud is a regime whose future should be calculated in months or years, rather than decades. King Abdullah is 83 years old. Over the course of his lifetime, he’s had thirty wives and has produced at least fifteen sons and twenty daughters. Overall, the Saudi royal family has some 6000 princes at last count. (more…)