Besides the oil issue, another reason US governments have been absurdly friendly with Saudi Arabia is because of Iran.
“Besides the oil issue, another reason US governments have been absurdly friendly with Saudi Arabia is because of Iran.”
I have said it before but for the life of me I cannot comprehend how it is that in the civil war that is ongoing in Islam the US has opted to back the desert-living Bedouin tribesmen with their medieval and barbaric life style against the civilised and relatively (these things are very relative) advanced, tolerant, civilised Persians.
Jews and Christians live in relative (again) peace in Iran, Iranian women can vote and go to school, it has a western-minded modern population but instead the US backs the head-chopping savages of Saudi Arabia.
Surely there has come a time for a Nixon in China moment, or Reagan meets Gorbachev, surely the US should reach out to the Iranians and leave behind their “good friends” the Saudis? It wasn’t the Iranians who brought down the twin towers.
But then I suppose Saudi oil money buys you a lot of friends in Washington DC.