I'm currently reading "A Start in Life", a 1970 novel by one of my favorite authors, Alan Sillitoe. His books have tough Northern England types who get by on "cunning" and are brutally honest. In the spirit of that...

What is this thing with Saudi Arabia? It's like Saudi Arabia is the most powerful country in the world. One prince gets picked up for rape and then let off, his cousin gets caught with two tons of drugs apparently meant for "ISIS". Those Saudi dudes are always crashing their cars in Beverly Hills. And there was that escort of the bin Laden family out of the country on Sept. 12th. Somebody, explain what the United States is afraid of? Oil will get cut off? Or something else?