“Yeah, assad is the good guy....”
Compared to McCain’s Salafist, Jihadi buddies, yes he is!
The whole USA policy since 9/11 can be traced to doing things in the interest of the Saudis. Going into Iraq was one example.
15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia.
Deeply in debt and economically troubled nations like the USA needed the Saudi money more than anything else in recent decades dictating foreign policy including the whole Arab Spring fiasco from Libya to Egypt to Syria.