Saudi is funding a lot of Sunni rebels in Iraq: are they on our team or gone rogue? [View all]

[yurbud]

The weird thing about 9/11 and since, is that the Saudis were big funders and even coordinators of al Qaeda and other Sunni fundamentalist groups, but in many cases, they worked to undermine governments our government didn't like (see Iran, Libya, etc.).

With this current chaos they are causing in Iraq, is Saudi backing this to support some broader US foreign policy goal like breaking Iraq into smaller, more easily bullied pieces, or are they "going rogue" and pursuing their own agenda of beating down Iran to be the top dog in the Middle East?

Also, if it's the second, what should, can, or will the US government do about the Saudi involvement?

My guess is they will do about as much about it as they did about their involvement in 9/11.

So which is it: Saudis support of Sunni fighters in Iraq part of larger US strategery or Saudis gone wild?

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	Saudis are supporting broader US policy in the region by backing Sunnis in Iraq
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	Saudis have gone rogue. Our government wants Iraq to stay unified and Saudis are putting their rivalry with Iran ahead of that
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	Neither/other (please explain)
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