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9/20/19, “U.S. to deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia after drone attacks on oil sites,” NBCnews.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/u-s-deploy-military-forces-saudi-arabia-after-drone-attacks-n1057216
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9/19/19, “Can Trump Still Avoid War with Iran?” Pat Buchanan
“A more fundamental question arises: If the United States was not attacked, why is it our duty to respond militarily to an attack on Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is not a member of NATO. It is not a treaty ally. The
Middle East Security Alliance or “Arab NATO” chatted up a year ago to
contain Iran — of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states —
was stillborn. We are under no obligation to fight the Saudis’ war.
Nor is Saudi Arabia a natural American ally.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman runs an Islamic autocracy.
He inserted himself into first position in the line of succession to
the throne of his father, who’s in failing health. He locked up his
brother princes at the Riyadh Ritz Carlton to shake them down for
billions of dollars.
He summoned the prime minister of Lebanon to the kingdom, where the
crown prince forced him to resign in humiliation. He has ostracized
Qatar from Arab Gulf councils. He has been accused of complicity in the
murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
With his US-built and bought air force, the Crown Prince has made a hell on earth of Yemen to crush the Houthis rebels who hold the capital.
The question President Trump confronts today:
How does he get his country back off the limb he climbed out on while
listening to the Republican neocons and hawks he defeated in 2016, but
who have had an inordinate influence over his foreign policy?”
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