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Are you in desperate need of a loan? Have you been laid off from a great-paying career in the resource sector? Are you finding yourself sleepless at night because your retirement money is trapped in a sinking lifeboat known as the stock market? Then you’d better call Saud.

I don’t mean Saul as in the A&E breakout TV show “Better Call Saul,” but Saud as in the House of Saud, America’s closest Arab ally — the head-chopping, rapist-enabling jihadists whose only accomplishment is within its borders, which hold nearly 300 billion barrels of easy-to-capture light crude. For 70 years, every U.S. president has called for aid — everything from artificially low U.S. interest rates to billions of dollars per year in the sale of military machinery — that has guaranteed America’s pre-eminence throughout the Arab world. That makes Saudi Arabia a member of a very exclusive group that is headed by the United States, and which has only platinum card status with Israel and Afghanistan.

Nothing has changed in the 28 years since the American Express ad “Membership has its privileges” first aired. It is just that today it takes another zero or two to get an Anglo/Arab Express card. The group is so spoiled that when the Saudi monarch visited Washington last week, Four Seasons literally covered its parking space with red carpet. The visit was hosted by President Barack Obama and attended by King Salman bin Abdulaziz, along with scores of royal dignitaries (or what we in America call deadbeats).

On Sept. 3, Politico reported:

“Everything is gold,” says one Four Seasons regular, who spied the deliveries arriving at the hotel. “Gold mirrors, gold end tables, gold lamps, even gold hat racks.” Red carpets have been laid down in hallways and even in the lower parking garage, so the king and his family never have to touch asphalt when departing their custom Mercedes caravan.

The guests staying at the 222-room hotel for the next couple of days are all part of the 79-year-old king’s entourage of Saudi diplomats, family members and assistants, one source said; a full buyout of the entire property was reserved for the visit.

Tens of millions of Muslims brag about what their religion has done for the world over past centuries, yet they only have managed to live in total opulence over oil discovered by an American. It is a joke to think employees of some company called Muhammad and Sons were riding their camels when they heard the lakes and rivers of oil below them. The biggest contribution a Saudi national did in developing Saudi crude has been the leasing of rich lands for foreigners to develop.

But there is more to the royalty of Saudi Arabia than there appears. Most are excellent falconers, understand the Koran and are dispensers of quick justice. The only place where there is more chopping in an hour than there is in Riyadh’s Deera Square is on the popular TV show “Chopped.”

I can almost picture this conversation at the Saudi market:

Merchant: “Beheading today, sire?”

Customer: “No, just a haircut.”

Yet for 70 years, Americans have been told by their presidents and congressional leaders that Saudi Arabia is a peaceful mecca in the Middle East, whose interests are for its people’s prosperity while building stability in the region. Members of our government will describe Saudi Arabia as a God-fearing, freedom-building, humanitarian nation, a nation that does not resemble those dirty, rotten, nuke-toting k**lers who rule Iran.

Every serious candidate for the U.S. presidency will make a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. They will return to tell us what a fair and progressive nation Saudi Arabia is.

They never mention the Saudi penchant for hatching terrorist’s plots, bankrolling billions of dollars to k**l Americans and then pretending to be our closest Middle East ally. Being on such friendly terms with Washington has made the hundreds of royal princes in Saudi Arabia billionaires.

The Saudi version of Allah is their inspiration to rid the Middle East of infidels.

On July 16, The New York Times reported:

For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organizations around the world, quietly practicing checkbook diplomacy to advance its agenda.

But a trove of thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks reveals in surprising detail how the government’s goal in recent years was not just to spread its strict version of Sunni Islam — though that was a priority — but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shiite Iran.

There is an evil in Islam, and Iran doesn’t own the trademark on it. The Saudis secretly raise millions of dollars to attack America’s interests and Americans. Of course, Iran is a dangerous state as well; but one measure of a regime is how a government treats its people.

My source has left the Middle East. After years of living and working in Saudi Arabia, he said he had to leave; he feared too much waking up dead. When it comes to a government murdering its own because it has been so declared by its god, your leaders are no more civilized than the madman Jim Jones.

We give the House of Saud the best bargains in modern weaponry, but we also provide them full-time protection from other nations. And even as Washington nags on and on about dirty “Canadian” oil, Saudi Arabian oil markets have been supported by the United States, even though thousands of domestic oil and gas companies may soon go broke. Oh, well. Cheers, Saudi Arabia.

And before you get on your high camel and lecture me about how Iran has rough plans for a nuclear weapon, keep this in mind: Saudi royalty already has the blueprints for the bomb tucked away in their thawbs.

And as 9/11 proved, there are plenty of Saudis who would like nothing more than to wipe out an entire Western city. The Saudi government probably doesn’t know or even want to know the status of these backdoor bombers or financiers, but rest assured they will use such a weapon to provide a growing ruthlessness of the official religious party in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism.

Yours in good times and bad,

–John Myers