Bascially, i think the Saudi royalty help the military of the USA, who guard many oil rigs in the middle east............and have an entire us navy fleet there............after all...........just how much does an air craft carrier cost...................?  Esp. a neclear powered aircraft carrier...........which has fighter planes on it........each worth millions of dollars.........i stood next to one once........well, close anyways.........i think it was the USS Independence................anyways, teh thing is/was a quarter of a mile long.....................who bought?  With what money did they buy it?  Was there even a bill of sale?    And how much does it cost?  And how much does it cost with all the fighter planes, teh US Marines to guard it, the crew, the pilots.........etc......................?


And oil...........teh 1970s saw the USA in double digit inflation and long gas lines...........i remember waiting in the car with my grandparents on our umpteen trips to DC from Delaware............oil.......the Middle East.........invade, invade, or make bargains..........with Saudi Arabia...........the Saudis let the USA use their land with the 1st gulf war, in 1991, when Iraq invaded Kuwait.........the USA was seen as a hero and liberated Kuwait from Iraq.........who was Pres............?    George Bush sr....the son of Prescott Bush, a fellow bonesman and a senator from CT adn the one who is credited with stealing Geronimo's skull from Ft. Sill, Oklahoma,,,,,,,,,,.

With the return of the long gas lines that were last seen just after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Carter was widely blamed and planned on delivering his fifth major speech on energy; however, he felt that the American people were no longer listening. Carter left for the presidential retreat of Camp David. "For more than a week, a veil of secrecy enveloped the proceedings. Dozens of prominent Democratic Party leaders—members of Congress, governors, labor leaders, academics and clergy—were summoned to the mountaintop retreat to confer with the beleaguered president." His pollster, Pat Caddell, told him that the American people simply faced a crisis of confidence because of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War; and Watergate.^[6] On July 15, 1979, Carter gave a nationally-televised address in which he identified what he believed to be a "crisis of confidence" among the American people. This came to be known as his "malaise" speech, although Carter never used the word in the speech.^[7]

Many expected Senator Kennedy to successfully challenge Carter in the upcoming Democratic Primary. Kennedy’s official announcement was scheduled for early November. A television interview with Roger Muddof CBS a few days before the announcement went badly, however. Kennedy gave an "incoherent and repetitive"^[8] answer to the question of why he was running, and the polls, which showed him leading the President by 58-25 in August now had him ahead 49-39.^[9]