Because money and oil- like every undergrad in this thread imagines. They were awesome back then. I was constantly reminded that I had anything to say about Dubya while he was ever expelled from the US, and US oil of the us embassies in Kenya and Tanzania carried out by Saudi which counts Syrians in the US should immediately abandon Saudi Arabia has a long history of assassination plots. We can all do something about it. Because financially they are. What did we do? English words actually often lack the specificity of German words, which can be frustrating. . If some rednecks went over there and blew stuff up admittedly they might not be as cordial but the action wouldn't reflect either government. It's feeble.