At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison reminds readers that Saudi Arabia is not an ally of the United States in any sense of the word. He writes (abridged): The U.S. is not obliged to come to Saudi Arabia’s defense. No matter who was responsible for the attack on their oil installation, the U.S. has no […]
U.S.: Let Israel and Saudis Go It Alone.
At The National Interest, Ted Galen Carpenter writes (abridged): Given the political division of the Korean Peninsula and the tensions it has generated over the past seven decades, the danger of an armed conflict involving North Korea and its neighbors is ever present. America becoming entangled in such a conflict because of its security guarantees […]
Rand Paul Stands Against Saudi Arms Sales
In a sign of the growing unease in the Senate over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and other recent actions by the government of Saudi Arabia, senators of both parties voted against selling arms to the kingdom. It was a rebuke to the president, and included even two of his most outspoken allies in the […]
Trump Must Dump Bolton, Cut Off the Saudis
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan cuts to the heart of the Saudi gambit. Getting in a war with Iran doesn’t benefit the people of the United States, it benefits the Saudis, Israelis, and neocons. Pat writes: Syria’s Bashar Assad never threatened us, though we armed rebels to overthrow him. In Iraq, Iranian-backed Shiite militia […]
The U.S Should Quickly Disentangle Itself from Saudi Arabia
At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison suggests that America should have ceased its patronage of the Saudis long ago, and now the Kingdom has become a liability. He writes: The Saudis are an eminently dispensable client, and one that the U.S. should have dropped long ago. It should be enough that Saudi Arabia has become […]
Saudi Government a Liability to the U.S.
At The American Conservative, Daniel Larison plainly states what is well-known to nearly all Americans outside the Washington D.C. bubble, the Saudis are a liability to the United States. He writes (abridged): Outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley unwittingly summed up the stupidity of the Trump administration’s embrace of Saudi Arabia in a recent interview: “What I can […]
A Balanced U.S Middle East Approach?
At The National Interest,Payam Mohseni and Ammar Nakhjavani warn American politicians about taking sides in the Shia-Sunni conflict currently boiling in the Middle East. The writers suggest that getting to close to the leaders of the Sunni movement, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, could drive away moderate Shia and even moderate Sunni countries and […]
Former CIA Officer Blames Arab Money and the Clinton Admin for Failure to Kill bin Laden
The former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, has taken to his blog, non-intervention.com, to hammer former CIA Director John Brennan, the Clinton administration, and the two-party elites. Scheuer believes that the promises of contracts with Arab governments to buy American military equipment could have played a role in the Clinton Administration’s […]
Is Trump Adopting Obama’s Failed Strategy in the Middle East?
Writing in The National Interest, Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, criticizes President Trump for doubling down on President Obama’s strategy in regards to Saudi Arabia. Bandow points to the U.S. assistance to the Kingdom in its war against Yemen, a country that has done nothing to harm U.S. interests, as an […]
How Can America Win in the Persian Gulf?
Andrew Bracevich writes in The American Conservative that the U.S.’s backing of Saudi Arabia is positively bizarre. Saudi is one of the world’s worst regimes. Bracevich suggests that the entire plan for U.S. engagement in the Persian Gulf needs to change if America is looking for a win. He writes (abridged): The House of Saud […]