An idea that we believe deserves consideration would be for the U.S. to back a Saudi takeover of Yemen and see that this is accomplished, whatever it takes. The new Saudi King was the nation's former Defense Minister and most followers of foreign policy would agree that he was a strong supporter of the U.S. and the West.

The U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia and other allies in the Middle East may change dramatically over the next few years, now that Saudi King Abdullah has passed away. Considering how incompetent the Obama foreign policy is this could pose an even more serious problem for U.S. interests around the world.

Abdullah's brother Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, now King of Saudi Arabia, is the last of the 7 favored sons of King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi leader who chased the Hashemites out of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula north to Jordan. He occupied Jeddah and Mecca and created the present Saudi Arabian State. The relationship with the U.S. will not likely change much in the short term but King Salman himself is elderly and not in good health.

Saudi Arabia's image among U.S. citizens has deteriorated because of serious differences over important issues, and the fact that Saudis made up the largest number of terrorists involved in the 9-11 atrocity. U.S. foreign policy, naive and dimwitted since the Obama Administration has been running government, has not helped this situation. That said, Saudi Arabia has been, and remains, an important ally in the Middle East, at least for the foreseeable future.

There is little doubt that Yemen, a country that the Obama Administration, as little as a week ago, touted as a big foreign policy success story, is now under the control of terrorists allied with ISIS and backed by Iran. Their next gambit will be to seek to destabilize Saudi Arabia and we must see that this does not happen! Threatening Saudi Arabia is an obvious strategy since Yemen borders Saudi Arabia to the south. Iran would likely put a lot of resources into such a strategy because taking over Saudi Arabia would make an additional 16% of the world's oil reserves available to the Iranians and give them a huge additional income with which to build more and longer range ICBM's with nuclear weapons able to reach the U.S.  

Control over Saudi oil would also allow them to energy starve U.S. allies around the world who are dependent upon Saudi oil. There is little doubt that Obama foreign policy and current development in the Middle East, if allowed to continue on its present course, is a game changer for Israel, for the region and ultimately for Europe and the U.S.