ISIS gains in Iraq put Saudi Forces on highest alert.

[roamer65]

Source: CNN

Saudi armed forces are now on highest alert due to ISIS.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/26/world/meast/saudi-arabia-security/index.html

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Sounds like ISIS is getting a little "too close for comfort".

[Raine1967]

1. Wait.....

I was under the impression that the Saudis initially were helping them?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar/373181/

Are they regretting the monster that McCain may very well have helped to create?

[roamer65]

2. The chickens just may be coming home to roost.

If the House of Saud goes down and ISIS takes control, calling it a regional ME war will be an understatement.

[Raine1967]

3. I am a little nervous about this.

and I am not a hair ion fire kinda person. This entire situation gives me heartburn.

and I will say it here and now, I place the blame on THIS current situation on McCain and Graham.

They both went to syria, they went to Libya -- they both wanted to arm the **rebels** You go check that think I posted… they made sure that the rebels were armed in Saudi Arabia. HE met with the people who are now in charge of ISIS. Gah.

[roamer65]

4. Very understandable to be nervous.

What was a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran in Syria, has now morphed into something much wider and more dangerous.

[mia]

5. Hope that all goes well with Kerry's visit to Saudi Arabia today.

http://gulfbusiness.com/2014/06/kerry-visit-saudi-arabia-friday-discuss-iraq-syria/#.U6znd3lOXcc

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Saudi Arabia on Friday to meet King Abdullah and discuss the crises in Iraq and Syria, he said at a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.

Kerry last visited the world’s top oil exporter in late March alongside U.S. President Barack Obama. He will most likely meet the Saudi monarch in Jeddah, where the Kingdom’s government is based during summer months.

“President Obama has asked me to travel to Saudi Arabia in order to meet with His Majesty King Abdullah and to discuss regional issues, including the situation in Iraq, and how we can counter the shared threat that is posed by ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), as well as to discuss our support for the moderate opposition in Syria,” he said.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have both been alarmed by the success of ISIL after its jihadists captured swathes of northern Iraq alongside an amalgam of Sunni tribal and Islamist militias and members of the former ruling Baath party....

[hatrack]

6. And now the 30-foot venomous chicken the Saud-Clowns nourished comes home to roost

How's that "jihad" thing working out for you know, you tinpot reactionary buffoons?

[Demeter]

7. It couldn't happen to a more deserving kingdom

IF it happens.

It would have to happen too fast for US intervention, though. Given how fast ISIS swept through Iraq...although the complete absence of any defensive force is behind that...

It's time.

[Trust Buster]

8. Great news IMO. We have been waiting for these developments for a quarter of a century.

For a quarter of a century Saudi Arabia has been duplicitous. They've leveraged their oil to ensure our military defense of them while they fund such groups and allow madrassa's to turn out future terrorists.

If the Middle East was viewed as a chess board, then the U.S. has been the only moving piece for 25 years. This will force the other pieces, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Iran, Syria and Turkey to actually move and put skin in the game. I've been waiting for this day for a quarter of a century. The Middle East hates the U.S. Let us now see their better answer to terrorism.

[The Wizard]

9. Good thing the Bush cartel

overthrew Saddam and destroyed Iraq's infrastructure. What would Iraq be now without the cartel's intervention? And more importantly, what would Iran look like and how would the entire region be more or less stable with Saddam in power?

[kelliekat44]

10. You meant the Saudis are actually going fight for their own interests? Amazing!! Didn't Cheney

promise them would't have to fight?

[happyslug]

11. Sounds like a counter move against Iran

ISIS is Saudi Arabian tool. If Iran moves into Iraq to help the Shiites, Saudi Arabia can also move to help ISIS.