You make some sense. Most of the other defenders of Saudi Arabia don’t. The Saudi prince could do what President Trunp can’t.....fire his Secret Service. It still doesn’t change that Iran, Syria, and Russia are not the bad guys. Or that we’re tied to Turkey by NATO membership. Or that the Saudis have too much control over our politicians, economic well being, and foreign policy.
“Most of the other defenders of Saudi Arabia don’t.”
I don’t consider myself a defender of Saudi Arabia. Muslim culture is a brutal, anti-woman, anti-western and anti-freedom war plan, whether it’s Sunni or Shia or any of the few sects between. However, Saudi Arabia is one of the pieces on the board. Western diplomacy should be about using those pieces in the way that best reforms Islam to our mutual advantage. The present leadership of SA and el-Sisi in Egypt are the best events to happen in our favor in my lifetime. (Atatürk came and went and has been erased.) We shouldn’t throw away any chance we get to improve Islam so that the 1.5 billion members can live freer and join us on the march towards peace.