My Comment:  Now this is not a comforting thought.  But it does show that the obama administration is slipping and losing control of the middle east.  From obama bowing to the King to this.  The obama administration isn’t having very many good days.  The brotherhood is threatening to expose them also.  It appears that the ‘man of peace’ has caused so much chaos and dissention in the middle east, it will never be sorted out.

(Tru News) A deepening diplomatic rift between Saudi Arabia and the US burst open on Tuesday after secretary of state John Kerry acknowledged that Washington’s key strategic ally had serious misgivings about US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Kerry held urgent talks with his Saudi counterpart in Paris on Monday amid complaints from Riyadh that the US was not doing enough to help Sunni-dominated rebels in Syria following a decision not launch US military action.

“We know that the Saudis were obviously disappointed that the [Syria] strike didn’t take place,” Kerry told reporters in London on Tuesday.

“It is our obligation to work closely with them – as I am doing,” he added, referring to multiple meetings he had on Monday with Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. “The president asked me to come and have the conversations that we have had.”

Kerry insisted relations remained fundamentally sound, but news of the meetings appears to confirm reports in the Wall Street Journal that the Saudis had threatened to scale back their regional co-operation with the US in protest at what it saw as a misguided Middle East strategy.

The Journal said Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who is leading the kingdom’s efforts to support rebels fighting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, had invited diplomats to Jeddah over the weekend to voice Riyadh’s frustration with the Obama administrationand its regional policies.

Reuters also quoted Prince Bandar telling European diplomats that the kingdom would be making a “major shift” in relations with Washington over perceived inaction towards the conflict in Syria, and a possible rapprochement with Iran over its nuclear program.

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