Note, none of the seven countries listed....are Saudi Arabia...which gave 15 of the 19 9-11 attackers. Kinda odd....isn’t it?
No. He’s dealing with the threat as it exists today, not 15 years ago.
Not only Saudi Arabia, but we need to ban Egypt and Pakistan as well.
The Saudis are assisting us with air support in Syria.
We have made a Churchillian “deal with the devil” with Saudi A over the decades. It must serve our interests somehow. They hate us. We tolerate them.
Politics makes for strange bed-fellows. That is just how it is in the world of diplomacy and espionage.