Why Saudi Arabia and the United States can’t seem to see eye to eye

But decades of unwavering friendship have come the tested in recent time over the Syrian dossier, a thorn in both Al Saud and the US’ thigh. The old friends have, as it happens, very different opinions and therefore views when it comes to handling the Syrian crisis.

If Saudi Arabia and the US have managed over the years to remain allies despite seemingly unbridgeable differences – one is a totalitarian absolute monarchy while the other claims to represent the free world – Syria could prove to be both powers undoing as their dispute deepens further as every day passes.

The two countries which have hailed each other in great esteem for so many long years have found themselves at complete odds, standing on very different sides of the river as it were.

As Saudi Arabia continues to favour a more direct and bloody approach in Syria through the financial and military support of terror militias, the US however has said to be more incline to encourage moderate militias instead, by fear that such a liberal promotion of terror in the Levant will eventually backfire in the hands of its makers and ultimately lead to more instability.

If both Al Saud and Washington want to remove Syrian President Bashar Al Assad both have very different views on how to achieve such goals. More importantly, as the US is slowly coming to terms with the idea that Syrians do not wish to see gone their President, Al Saud royals remain in complete political denial, keen to further push on their mad terror agenda in Syria.

After three years of bloodshed and the arrivals of thousands upon thousands of Takfiri fighters in Syria, Washington understands the danger of terror in the Levant its officials do comprehend now that they have helped manufactured the next generation of Islamic radicals. In many ways Syria has become a new ground zero for terror, just as Afghanistan became the birthplace of al-Qaeda in the 1990s.

Blinded by its fear of Iran and its desire to lay waste any contender to its rule over the Middle East and the Islamic world, Saudi Arabia cannot see that it is laying waste the region.

Saudi Arabia vs Washington malaise first manifested when Prince Bandar, the former head of intelligence clashed with US officials over Syria. Since then, if officials have been keen to play down any frictions, sources have confirmed that strong dissensions remain in between the two powers.

Interestingly as Saudi Arabia and the US continue to bicker over Syria, Iran has appeared ever more the only power with enough traction to broker a lasting solution to the Levant crisis. Should Washington come to its senses again when it comes to Iran and realise that the real enemy is not in Tehran but rather in Riyadh, the region could actually see some positive change.

Too many bad blood has run in between Saudi Arabia and the US for things to ever go back to the way they were – both powers have clashed over too many dossiers since the Islamic Awakening – Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood, Syria and Takfir militias, Iran and its nuclear program –