Agreed. I'm the OIC of the Saudi's at Whiting and I know, there are folks watching if you know what I mean. We train Navy pilots but I'm sure the AF probably has a similar program. It might be a cost thing, the Saudi's can afford to send their students here, pay them per deim, the cost of flight training, etc. Maybe not cost effective at the moment.
Most of you won't remember this (many of you weren't born yet), but in 1979 we trained Iranians in Pensacola. When the Shah was overthrown and the Iranian clerics took charge, they ordered all the Iranian pilots back home.
As a flight student in PCola at the time, I have three distinct memories of it:
1. You could buy a pimped-out conversion van or a souped up 'Blackbird' Firebird for pennies on the dollar (it's what they drove);
2. Levi jeans were sold out at every store that carried them, and
3. They were all begging for asylum, because they knew they'd all be shot upon arrival (they were, after all, the Shah's warriors who had been living the secular Western life in America). Ironically, one of the more popular and friendly Iranian studs, a VT-86 stud when sent home, that had been the 'face' on several Navy promo videos discussing US/Iranian cooperation, was shown on the national news being executed less than two weeks after he left.