A policy gap opens between the Saudis and the USA by SIGNYM

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A policy gap opens between the Saudis and the USA

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UPDATED: Saturday, May 16, 2015 14:20
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Saturday, May 16, 2015 10:56 AM

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Un-Photoshopped Reuters photo sums up US foreign policy perfectly as Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani, representing the Gulf Co-operation Council, appears to leave U.S. President Barack Obama hanging during a welcome ceremony at the White House this week.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-15/us-foreign-policy-one-photo

This picture sums up the news about Saudi-USA relations. Obama held an Arab "summit" to which nobody of importance came. The new King of Saudi Arabia chose to attend a horse show with Queen Elizabeth instead. And Turkey and Saudi Arabia just agreed to support anti-Assad extremists in Syria, whether or not they're Nusra or al Qaida or ISIS.

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Far from being passive and brainless sellers of oil, only concerned with making money and keeping stables of cars, harems of slaves, (and some boy-toys), the Saudi Royal Family has regional ambitions which they have been exercising for decades by funding and arming extremists everywhere, from Sudan to Yemen to Chechnya to Pakistan and Afghanistan. These extremists are very useful for destabilizing competitor's regimes. THE ONE THING THEY WILL NOT DO, by agreement with the USA, is attack Israel.

We (the USA) have been tolerating this deal with the devil for decades: our political, economic, and military tolerance for their regional ambitions (minus Israel, which is forbidden) for their taking US dollars for oil and buying Treasuries and American arms.

This deal appears to be breaking down. The source of friction is the USA's reluctance to depose Assad of Syria, and - even worse- to appear to be making some sort of detente with Iran. Saudi Arabia sees Iran as the essential threat to their desire for regional control, and any potential ally of Iran (such as Syria and the Houthis in Yemen) as a people and culture to be exterminated.

Will we be treated to the same threat of attacks by Saudi-backed terrorists? (Yanno, another 9-11?) Or is this merely a bump in the road in our essential relationship of arms and money with the Saudi tyrants?

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Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:20 PM

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America loves a winner!

Perhaps if Obama would have bowed down, fully from the waist at a 90 degree angle, and...well, you get the idea.

But of course, we all know that a single photo could be taken out of context, right ?

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