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Back to business as usual
US Defense Secretary James Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common adversary in Iran and its "destabilizing" activities.The United States and Saudi Arabia have a decades-old relationship based on the exchange of American security for Saudi oil. But ties between Riyadh and Washington became increasingly frayed during the administration of US President Barack Obama. Saudi leaders felt Obama was reluctant to get involved in the civil war in Syria and was tilting toward Riyadh's regional rival Iran. The idea that out of every 10 Muslim terrorists 9, and 99% of "soft Jihad" are supported by Saudi money, just doesn't seem to penetrate Washington. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-19 |
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