History haunts Saudi strategy with Syria

In AsiaTimes, here

".....Eventually, of course, when the mujahideen returned home the Saudis were in an even worse situation. Not only were these proselytized, fervent and passionate men returning home, they were now combat veterans with a range of guerrilla warfare skills. To make things worse, not long after their return, Iraq invaded Kuwait and implicitly threatened Saudi's biggest oil fields in the east of the country, next to Kuwait.....
Saudi Arabia, for example, is believed to have provided not only funds but around 15-20% of the fighters at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp conflict in 2007. One factor no doubt adding to Saudi anxiety in Lebanon was the rout of Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri's offices in West Beirut by Shi'ite Hezbollah on May 7, 2008.......
persuasive arguments suggesting that the Saudis have reverted to their failed policies of the past ..."