Why Does the U.S. Support a Country FOUNDED With Terrorism, Which Is the MAIN SOURCE of Islamic Terrorism Today?

America Has Sold Its Soul for Oil A U. S. congressman for 6 years, who is now a talking head on MSNBC (Joe Scarborough) says that – even if the Saudi government backed the 9/11 attacks – Saudi oil is too important to do anything about it:

This is not an isolated incident. It is a microcosm of U. S.-Saudi relations.
By way of background, former MI6 agent Alastair Crooke notes that Saudi Arabia was founded with terrorism:
One dominant strand to the Saudi identity pertains directly to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (the founder of Wahhabism), and the use to which his radical, exclusionist puritanism was put by Ibn Saud. (The latter was then no more than a minor leader – amongst many – of continually sparring and raiding Bedouin tribes in the baking and desperately poor deserts of the Nejd.)

This post was published at Washingtons Blog on August 29, 2014.