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>Are you saying supporting SA is in our national interest Officially supporting Saudi Arabia has been the US position since Nixon was president for the purpose
by equalunique 8y ago
>Are you saying supporting SA is in our national interest
Officially supporting Saudi Arabia has been the US position since Nixon was president for the purposes of lowering oil prices and assisting Israel. Supporting Saudi Arabia is undeniably in the national interest if you ask the people in this country who have been amassing power since that time. National interest and human rights are separate priorities.
Change would be nice but don't hold your breath.
- resters 8y agoNicely put comment. If the goal is oil prices, the options include full annexation of Saudi, supporting a favored group of Saudi elites/royals, and many other options. Each has its humanitarian ups and downs. It may be the case that national interest sometimes requires making humanitarian trade-offs, and there is nothing wrong with using the consent mechanisms of democracy to find a path for US policy amid those trade offs. But I am certain that creating a pretense that US actions are driven only by humanitarian concerns and framing the larger policy issues to the public as over-simplified good vs evil is extremely dishonest, and should not be funded by taxpayer dollars. It seems that much as the tooth fairy is practice for religion, religion is practice for politics.