And its consequences could be cataclysmic.
“America is dismantling the pillars of its own empire – Saudi editor to ‘Post,'” by Mohammed Alyahya, Jerusalem Post, March 28, 2022:
The Saudi-US relationship is in the throes of a crisis. As a Saudi who went to college in the US, loves America and wants to see it strong, I am increasingly disturbed by the unreality of the American discussion about the subject, which often fails to acknowledge just how deep and serious the rift has grown.
A more realistic discussion should focus on one word: “Divorce.” When President Barack Obama negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran, we Saudis understood him to be seeking the breakup of a 70-year marriage.
How could we not? After all, the flaws in the deal are well known. It paves a path for Iran to a nuclear bomb. It fills the war chest of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which has spread militias across the Arab world armed with precision-guided munitions to maim and kill people who formerly looked to America to help guarantee their safety….
Sold disingenuously to the American public as an arms control agreement, the deal is an assault on the regional order that the United States established in the aftermath of World War II. Explicitly hostile to Saudi Arabia, to say nothing of America’s other greatest ally in the region, Israel, the deal replaces the former American-led regional security structure with a concert system in which Iran, backed by Russia and China, becomes America’s new subcontractor while America’s former allies—the Gulf States and Israel— are demoted to second-tier status.
Most importantly, to its authors, the deal takes the United States out of the business of containing Iran, which in response has further ramped up its attacks on regional peace and stability….
CogitoErgoSum says
So who was the husband and who was the wife in this “marriage” between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and who is seeking the divorce? According to the Koran is not a husband allowed up to 4 wives? Frankly, I don’t like the marriage analogy. I’d go with a junkie/pusher metaphor or maybe hired gun/cowardly rich man comparison.
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe the U.S. is Will Smith, Saudi Arabia is Jada and Iran is Chris Rock.
gravenimage says
Very funny, CogitoErgoSum.
gravenimage says
Saudi editor: Biden’s Iran nuke deal is ‘assault on the regional order that the US established after World War II’
“America is dismantling the pillars of its own empire…”
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America doesn’t have an empire.
The appeasing Iran deal is a *very* bad idea–but not because the appalling barbaric Jihad-sponsoring Saudis don’t like it.
They are both savages–just involved in Sunni/Shia jockeying for power.
PMK says
It’s not 1945 anymore. The regional ‘order’ was disrupted over forty years ago by the Iranian revolution and all but collapsed after the breakup of the Soviet Union.. What did the Saudis do in those forty years? They can’t hide behind America’s skirts anymore. They still support jihad around the world. Now, with energy prices skyrocketing, they will have still more money to fund terrorism. If they’re so worried about Iran, the Saudis should be doing more to unite the Arab world against Iran. I believe the “Saudi who loves America and wants to see it strong” just wants American protection but what does he offer in return?