US-Saudi: Yesteryear days are gone forever

``... it is going to be extremely difficult to weave a new fabric of shared interests between Washington and Riyadh if the push comes to shove over the 28 pages and the culpability of members of the Saudi royal family in the 9/11 attacks surfaces. Indeed, all indications are that the battle lines are being drawn slowly, steadily, with a large bipartisan group of Senate and House lawmakers having backed a bill that would allow families of the 9/11 victims to sue foreign states if they helped fund or support a terrorist attack on US soil. It is an unmistakable sign of the stormy times ahead that the bill has drawn the backing of both Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and that it is, in fact, co-sponsored by GOP candidate Ted Cruz.''