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So, remember the Oil Crisis of 1973? Israel beats up on the Arab nations surrounding it in the Yom Kippur War, and in response King Faisal of Saudi Arabia starts an oil embargo against the west, who support Israel. Well, according to some British sources (see here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/jan/01/uk.past3), President Richard Nixon and the US Government were considering an invasion of Saudi Arabia to combat this embargo. The question? What if they did. What if the USA invaded Saudi Arabia in respone to the oil embargo in 1973? How would the Islamic world react to an attack on their holy land? How would the Saudi's fare? Would they crumble in a week like Saddam, or burrow in and fight for decades on end like the Viet Cong? Would the invasion legitimize the Saudi kingdom in the eyes of other Arab nations? And how would the counterculture in the states react to getting involved in another war just barely after Vietnam? Let me know what you think.

NOTE: This post was accidentally made earlier in the Pre1900 forum. Please ignore that mistake haha, im not sure how to delete it.
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