Sinister Twilight in the Desert: The Coming End of ‘Wahhabism’ and its Aftermath

End of the US-Gulf Arab Alliance US military umbrella for the Gulf Arab world may soon come to an end. There are sound economic reasons for this: Washington had spent close to $10 trillion in protecting Persian Gulf Arab tyrannies and their oil infrastructure since the promulgation of the Carter Doctrine in 1980. This mind-boggling figure, topping $300 billion per annum, was largely based on a 2010 analysis by Roger Stern, an economic geographer at Princeton University. Since then, one can safely...