Posted on 02/01/2015 11:22:42 AM PST by lbryce
President Barack Obama‘s visit to Saudi Arabia this week with a heavy-duty delegation was a smart move. But nobody should have any illusions that this quick stop will fix what’s troubling U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia or other key allies in the region.
These days, the United States’ two oldest and most important friends in the Middle East–Israel and Saudi Arabia–seem to have more in common with one another than they do with Washington. Throw Egypt into the mix and you have an unusual threesome–a Jewish state, a monarchy, and a military-controlled phony republic–that have, as a practical matter, aligned in opposition to U.S. policies that they neither understand nor approve of.
None of this would matter if U.S. allies in that turbulent region were plentiful and reliable. But they aren’t, and the Middle East is in meltdown. That latter alone is reason to be careful in handling friends.
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Nobody likes us because nobody can trust us. The US used to stand by is commitments. Now, Obummer does whatever the hell Valerie Jarrett pleases whenever she suggsts it.
No Arab government can trust the US after Arab Spring, and especially the MB support in Egypt. Israel can’t trust us, period. And, even O’s good buddy, that Islamist wannabe near-caliph Erdogan, doesn’t like him any more.
We’re finally doing something right.
From my pals who have served over there, the Saudis were never our friends. They hire foreigners to do their work, cooks and maids from the Philippines, laborers from Pakistan, etc. They regard Americans as hired help, for the oil industry, or to serve as their military defenders. We delude ourselves to think that we are friends.
That's because The One operates at such a high level of thinking, mere mortals cannot fathom his brilliance.
But they should trust him. HE knows what's best for everybody....
this article is bullcrap propaganda on so many levels.
Anybody who thinks that Saudi Arabia is a friend, much less an important friend, much less a most important friend, should not be allowed out of the house without supervision.
Saudi Arabia was, and is, the enemy Main Body and center of gravity.
Like how?
‘zackly.
We only have ONE real friend in the middle east and that is ISRAEL. But our muslim president is doing his dead level best to get Israel killed by his sunni pals in saudi or his blood brothers of the shitte’s in iran.
“Even My Friends Don’t Like Me”
I swear, there’s a country/western song laying up in there somewhere.
Exactly! The British are our friends (for now). The Israelis should be our friends, but Obama is doing his best to push them away.
The Saudis are NOT our friends, and they never will be. They have oil, we have aircraft carriers. It's a weird symbiotic relationship, and nothing more than that.
Saudi Arabia is an "old friend". Yet all the 9/11 hijackers had Saudi connections. What an odd coincidence.
Thanks for your reply. Maybe one day we will learn our lesson?
FREEgards!
HAHAHA who in their right mind would trust a juvenile gum chewing disbarred gender confused crack head bathhouse boy who likes to bend over ...
Well, the whole world knows Odumba$$ is a bare-faced liar. Why should anything out of this administration be trusted? By anybody on the planet?
Easy to figure out: No honor = no trust
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