If you read my posts then you are aware that I feel  Saudis are anything but good players in the region of the Middle East…..I recently read how the CIA is using Saudi cash to fight some of these wars that we need……(I will get back to the main point….but first what you all have been dreading….a historical perspective…..)(We can learn a lot if we keep an eye on history)……

Let’s step back into the past….Reagan is prez and he sends the Marines to Lebanon to act as a peacekeeping force during the civil war in that country…..if you know anything about it then you will know that bombers in Beirut blew up the embassy first and then the marine barracks……about 300 people died……

Reagan wanted revenge and turned to the Israelis for help with intel……they provided info that said the leader of the group was a man known as Fadlallah……

As one of the alleged leaders of Hezbollah, a status both he and the group denied  he was the target of several assassination attempts, including the allegedly CIA-sponsored and funded  8 March 1985 Beirut car bombing that killed 80 people.

On 8 March 1985, a car bomb equivalent to 440 lb (200 kg) of dynamite exploded 9–45 metre from his house in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast destroyed a 7-story apartment building and a cinema, killed 80 people and wounded 256. The attack was timed to go off as worshippers were leaving Friday Prayers. Most of the dead were girls and women who had been leaving the mosque, though the ferocity of the blast “burned babies in their beds,” “killed a bride buying her trousseau,” and “blew away three children as they walked home from the mosque.” It also “devastated the main street of the densely populated” West Beirut suburb. but Fadl-Allāh escaped injury. One of his bodyguards at the time was Imad Mughniyeh, who was later assassinated in a car-bombing in February 2008.

According to Bob Woodward, CIA director William Casey was involved in the attack, which he suggests was carried out with funding from Saudi Arabia. Former Lebanese warlord and statesman late Elie Hobeika was accused as one of those likely responsible for the actual operation.

(wkipedia)

BTW, the Israelis blew it!  Fadlallah was not connected in any way to a terrorist organization……he was a preacher plain and simple……basically the bomb killed and maimed people for NO reason………other than revenge.

I bring up this ancient history because it appears that was not the only time the Saudis have used all their cash to help the CIA screw up…….

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Source: CIA covert ops needs Saudi money: decades story recurring – American Herald Tribune

That is nice that we can depend on an “ally” to cover our butts when needed…..but now I ask…..what about that “black budget”…..that secret budget what the Hell is that money used for?

If this is true then I believe I have hit on one of the reasons that we hold Saudi Arabia like baby to our bosom……cash!

And speaking of cash…..the Pentagon needs more money for the fights we have started…….

The Pentagon’s defense budget request for 2017, expected to be released related this week, is said to include a major increase in funding sought to pay for the ever-escalating ISIS war, with officials saying it will be about 35% higher than last year’s ISIS war budget.

It is probably unsurprising, as the Pentagon’s escalations have already put 3,700 ground troops in Iraq, with officials openly pushing for another 800 troops in the near term, and likely more than that before the year is out.

With the promise of more tax cuts….where will the US get the cash to pay for all this intervention?

Care to venture a guess?