(MENAFN- Arab Times)
Ahmed Al-Jarallah Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times
THE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
known for its calm approach to leadership affairs, as it refrains from dealing
with issues in a reactive manner.
This is what we derived from the
wise leadership in dealing with the terrorist attack on vital oil facilities in
the Kingdom; in addition to how Riyadh pragmatically dealt with the incident by
considering it a malicious assault which does not only affect the Kingdom's
security, but also the global energy supply. In other words, it is targeting
the world.
Undoubtedly, the Kingdom has the
ability to strongly retaliate to this aggression as it possesses capabilities
for such act.
King Salman stated in the Cabinet
meeting yesterday: 'I affirm the Kingdom's ability to deal with the consequence
of such cowardly aggression which targeted not only the vital facilities in
Saudi Arabia but the global oil supply and stability of the global economy as
well.'
This was seconded by Crown Prince
Muhammad bin Salman when he addressed US President Donald Trump: 'The Kingdom
has the will and ability to confront and deal with this terrorist aggression.'
Some people in the world saw
Saudi's deliberation on responding to these attacks as a sign of weakness,
prompting such people to maliciously fish in murky waters.
These people failed to realize
the nature of managing affairs of the Kingdom, which overcame shock from the
word 'go' and operated on two parallel lines – first is to make the world to
shoulder its responsibility in terms of its security and stability, and second
is to maintain oil supply.
Perhaps, any other country would
have retaliated militarily to such aggression; but the Kingdom initially
decided to take it slow, observe, and prevent Iran from achieving its goal.
Instead, the Kingdom threw the ball to the international community which
received series of positions in this regard.
Such positions include that of
Trump who said: 'The US knows who is behind the attacks on Saudi's oil
facilities. It is ready to react but it is waiting for Saudi's fact check and
evaluation before deciding how to deal with this matter.' In other words,
Washington cannot make a move without Riyadh – the only party with the right to
deal with this case.
Meanwhile, today's world is in
direct confrontation with Iran which appears like a lost ship manned by a
thousand captains in the midst of a stormy sea; and every captain has his own
objective and plan.
Therefore, the latest attack,
which seems to be Iran's suicidal mission, put matters back to square one and
foiled all political attempts by Tehran to crack the sanction wall.
This wall was erected by the
international community because of Tehran's malicious activities which crossed
the red line while the Revolutionary Guard continues to dominate and manage the
game which will intensify tension not only regionally, but internationally.
The global community ought to
choose between decisiveness in ending this nightmare and adopting patch up
solutions which will become a loss to everything that would have contributed to
global peace and safety.
Nonetheless, all that is left to
say is: For every Khamenei terror, there is wise Salman who knows when to respond
and when to apply the cauterizing solution.
By Ahmed Al-Jarallah
Editor-in-Chief, the Arab
Times
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