And the
>US doesn't seem to have been as involved in the nitty gritty of state
>security as they were with say the Shah. If anything, the opposite seems
>to be the case.
from what I've read, in case of emergency, the House of Saud doesn't have enough trained personnel to operate the weaponry the US has sold them. and that's the reason US troops have stayed behind after the Gulf War.
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