{"id":185708,"date":"2014-08-31T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/31\/this-is-rich-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-31T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T01:51:00","slug":"this-is-rich-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/31\/this-is-rich-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Abdullah, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/saudi-king-warns-west-jihadists-next-target-093701543.html\">warning that ISIS\/ISIL\/IS will go after the west nest, so they should engage in aggressive military action<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is &#8220;rapid&#8221; action.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month,&#8221; he said in remarks quoted on Saturday by Asharq al-Awsat daily and Saudi-backed Al-Arabiya television station.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Terrorism knows no border and its danger could affect several countries outside the Middle East,&#8221; said the king who was speaking at a welcoming ceremony on Friday for new ambassadors, including a new envoy from Saudi ally the United States.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am sure that some of the members of ISIS might <b>eventually<\/b> turn their attentions to the west, but they will be turning their eyes to toward Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>They are looking at establishing a Caliphate, and driving out apostasy and corruption as their first order of business, and the House of Saud is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the fact that, until recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2014\/06\/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar\/373181\/\">the House of Saud was ISIS&#8217;s most important patron<\/a>, I&#8217;m thinking that taking the Saudi&#8217;s advice is not in our best interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Abdullah, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, is warning that ISIS\/ISIL\/IS will go after the west nest, so they should engage in aggressive military action: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has warned that the West will be the next target of the jihadists sweeping through Syria and Iraq, unless there is &#8220;rapid&#8221; action.&#8220;If we ignore &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1051,986,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-hypocrisy","category-middle-east","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}