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Buying oil is but a small part of how we support there piss poor tyrant rulers. When South Africa was using apartheid , we did not buy all we could from them, arm them with more and better military tech, and just public support of them. The Saud's have a apartheid of there own , against woman and the Shia as well. Is it justification for the attacks on the US? of course not, but it does not mean that our policy in the middle east had put oil first democracy 2nd for years.  The only place we have not, is Iran....and anyone who looks at the population of Iran , we would see how our policy on Iran has netted us