“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.
I agree that it does seem that el-Sisi has done a good job stabilizing Egypt. But it also brings to the forefront disastrous US foreign policy. He had to get rid of the gov that was in power because of US meddling.