Lots of people weigh in on the phrase buried in the middle of this lengthy piece: "a $100 billion deal for Saudi Arabia to buy American arms."  Whoa.  

I had three thoughts about this: 
1. Well, that certainly puts a perspective on Canada's piddly little $15 billion deal to sell light-armoured vehicles.  That's like some poor wholesale rep pretty pleased about selling a corporation a few boxes of pencils and pens while a competitor walks an new complete computer system through the doors.

2. Saudi Arabia: terrible human rights violator.  Which, I suspect, is the reason most commenters mentioned the sales by mouse and elephant.  Call for sanctions against Saudi Arabia!  I mean it's obvious it isn't worth THAT much to us. But, NO WAY we'd shake our fist at arms-dealing America, , right?  NAFTA coming up and all...

3. and this: "$50 billion of deals with U.S. companies... to diversify the kingdom’s economy." SA has been talking diversification for years. How did Canada miss THIS sale?