Babak,
Great catch. I read Drudge daily especially now. I saw the headline on the rumsfeld rant but didn't read the details. The Saudi angle is scary. Bottom line is,and most people won't admit it, but with few exceptions, the whole middle east needs to be turned upside down in order to win this war. Afghan, Iraq, Syria are the easy targets, Iran, Saudi, UAE are the toughies.
We can't get into to much of this here but imo we will have to occupy land in the middle east to finish this 10 year war. Might as well secure our oil while we're at it.