Americans, don’t let the Saudis tell you what to do

Recently The European Conservative did an interview with Robert Reilly, author of the ISI-published book The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis. At the end of the interview, he says this:

So, the first thing that is necessary is to sort of regain control of our own “oxygen supply.” If someone else can control your oxygen supply, you’re dependent on them and you basically have to do what they tell you to do. Oil is the oxygen of the industrialized world and we have the opportunity now in the United States to dramatically transform that because of the enormous reserves that have been discovered here, particularly of natural gas that can fuel a great deal of our industry and growing oil reserves.

Obviously, the Obama Administration is not interested in that, but the less we are dependent on the Middle East, the better for us and for everyone else-particularly in respect to Saudi Arabia, which has the single most retrograde form of Islam that exists and which has out-spent the United States by tens of billions of dollars on its form of public diplomacy in spreading the Wahabi retrograde form of Islam.

Inspired, in part, by these two paragraphs, I created this short video:

UPDATE: This article originally credited the Wynnewood Institute with conducting a recent interview with Robert Reilly. In fact, The European Conservative first interviewed Reilly, and the Wynnewood Institute reran the article.