Obama in Saudi Arabia. A country with a dubious role in the international scenario

Barack Obama's visit to Saudi Arabia is accomplished in a period when relations between the two states have considerably cooled. Despite the fame of Riyadh as a major ally of the West in the Gulf, the questions about the role of the Saudis as financiers of terrorism has taken over from the Americans in particular and Westerners in general. Since the attacks of September eleven linger on Saudi Arabia, more than a suspicion, despite the American investigation has largely exonerated the Saudis; However, there are some parts still kept secret investigation, which may be listed Saudi officials implicated in terrorist acts. If these items have not been proven, and therefore can not affect relations between Washington and Riyadh, political influence and economic aid to several Islamic extremist groups seem to be ascertained; the rest of the international politics of Saudi Arabia is marked by a fight with no holds barred against the moderates and the Middle East Shiites, in a continuing desire for affirmation of their role as religious leader of the Sunni world and politics. This trend is not new in recent times, but also dates back to before the Arab Spring, they could develop a democratic way in the population and have, instead, been addressed in the affirmation of Islam as a political entity and identity between state law and Islamic law. One can not see in this well planned program, a project of affirmation most reactionary Islamism, able to fill the political vacuum left by the fall of dictatorships, with a perfect blend of the Sunni world in a kind of religious confederation. There is a clear contrast in being American allies, especially the United States Obama, and have guaranteed support for the Afghan Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Of course if you think of George Bush to error, that Saddam Hussein had identified the true enemy of the West, one can not avoid the conclusion that the then President of the United States was incompetent or that it was used by some other power foreign to destabilize the country of Iraq, from which it took off then the Islamic state entity as a sovereign state entity proclaimed. Not that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, not to fight, as they were Gaddafi and Mubarak, but how the events occurred and the general instability that has arisen, the question arises who agreed the current state of affairs . It remains undeniable that the West is under pressure both to terrorism, that the phenomenon of migration set on purpose to create confusion and lack of balance in the European countries and within the European Union itself. What we are witnessing is a scenario with too many coincidences verified to be considered as such. There are variables that could be directed in a completely different way, but that, on the contrary, all converge to contribute to the creation of a state of deep insecurity. And if you think about how you handled the power in Saudi Arabia, but also in Egypt and Turkey, in an increasingly absolutist and indiscriminate use of force and violence, without which no civil right is effectively guaranteed, one can not question the likelihood that these methods can be exported. But for the West, there is always the question that a possible substitute for schemes is worse than the last. The Egyptian experience, but also that of Libya, have held a different approach to the Saudi regime, despite the international disrepute to which he is. However, the attitude is still too condescending and the first to remain at this level are just the Americans, despite the alliance's level has dropped to the Saudi attitude toward the Islamic state and the approach to Iran, a deep source contrast between Washington and Riyadh. Certainly Saudi Arabia has an economic liquidity able to increase other investments, but the economics are still too concerned in the actual convenience of the political: that is, in the long run not to distance themselves from these schemes do not expose the West to increasing blackmail especially in geopolitical issues? These are issues not just, since they are the ones that will influence the future history and, therefore, should be examined with particular care. As for Obama, now at the end of his term it seems to be more interested in ensuring his successor, whoever it will be, a status quo from which to start, a postponement of the decision on which will have to decide what attitude to take the United States, towards these regimes increasingly confessional and on which they will, most likely, followed by the Western allies.