US & Saudi Arabia
In the late 40's Herbert Feis, a United States' State Department analysis, determined that a certain Arab nation in the Middle East has "one of the greatest material prizes in world history": oil reserves. The United States government has bargained over $100 billion in military goods, services, and Cold War-era bases, compatible with U.S. needs, in exchange for the largest importation of this Arab oil from any other nation in the world. Since the end of World War II no other middle-eastern country has had more influence, connected more ties, or assimilated more partnerships with the United States than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has. Though the Saudi Arabian nation has been established on the Arabian Peninsula since the early 18th century, King Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud founded modern Saudi Arabia on September 23, 1932 under the constitution of the Holy Koran. During King Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Saud's reign the nation began a long and prosperous period of economic growth, thanks in part to the discovery of vast oil supplies located throughout the Arabian Peninsula. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia comprises almost four-fifths of the Arabian Peninsula, an area approximately one-third the size of the continental U
But Saudi citizens not only have to deal with the external conflicts with America, they also have to handle fundamentalist regimes within their own country. Many of these regimes are trying to overthrow King Fahd. Also Saudi Arabia has been mildly avoiding cooperation with U.S. officials with retrieval of records on 15 of the September 11th terrorists, all of which are Saudi-born, and with providing information on terrorist funding in the country, especially through Islamic charity organizations. The U.S. is not trying hard to obtain usage of Saudi military bases for Afghanistan attacks or trying to freeze Saudi funds of assumed terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden because of the fact that it will only fuel the internal regimes in Saudi Arabia to lash out at the Saudi monarchy. Currently about 8.7 million citizens in the Saudi Kingdom are 18 years old or younger: nearly half of the entire population. The nation has been the perfect breeding ground for terrorist activity in the past decade, especially in maintaining and recruiting foot soldiers for Holy Jihads. Many Saudi citizens have acted out against U.S. support for Israel by boycotting American stores and restaurants. The important question on many government official's minds is can the Saudi family withstand strong political instability from within its own national population? Actions like these not only make the U.S. look like a humbled ally but also make the U.S. out to be a quite opponent of Saudi Arabia; even more so after the events of September 11th. The F.B.I., local authorities, and ordinary citizens have blamed many Saudi Americans for the recent attacks in New York and Washington. F.B.I. officials have questioned Sahim al- Shalaan, a Saudi Arabian student studying at Florida Atlantic University, repeatedly in the past few months: Washington and Riyadh will need to work out a cooperative plan in order for both of their respective countries to strengthen in the coming years. Saudi needs more political stability within its social system and the U.S. needs access to the oil reserves in Saudi Arabia. Even though Saudi Arabia has been working very slowly with the U.S. in its global war on terrorism, it's a sensiti
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Approximate Word count = 1487
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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