American addiction to oil and investment in the Middle East.
You’re unaware of the Saudi connection to recent American presidents? Never heard of the Iraq invasion of Kuwait and the danger of Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia?
Exactly, the Saudis have been playing the US for suckers for the past half century. The US military has been the foreign legion of the House of Saud for decades doing their bidding and keeping the Saudis’ arch enemies the Shiite Iranians at bay.
Even as they were doing this and the US was protecting their oil fields the Saudis were still sending the 911 hijackers out to attack America.
Now the US is backing the Saudis’ allies in Syria against Assad and at the same time funding the same forces who are today carving out a new Sunni nation out of the shell of Syria and Iraq. The US funds the Sunnis in Syria and opposes them in Iraq and they’re precisely the same bunch of people!
It’s the most insane schizophrenic foreign policy I have ever seen. Iran hasn’t been a threat to the US in a quarter of a century, Iran is a far more educated and tolerant society than Saudi Arabia ever could be. The Iranian population is much more favorably disposed toward the West than the Saudis are, Iran used to be the US’ best friend in the region.
But because the US government and political elite is in the pocket of the Saudi oil sheiks the US has steadfastly refused to reconcile with Iran.
Nixon could make peace with China, Reagan could make peace with the Soviet Union but apparently it’s impossible to make peace with Iran and instead the US kisses the ass of the Saudis who hate everything about America.
I simply cannot make head nor tail of this policy.