May 12, 2015
IT WAS NEVER MORE THAN A MARRIAGE OF CONVENBIENCE...:
King's Absence at Meeting Signals a Saudi-U.S. Marriage Adrift (PETER BAKER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR, MAY 11, 2015, NY Times)
The decision by King Salman of Saudi Arabia to skip a summit meeting called by President Obama reflects a new reality for two nations that for generations shared goals in the Middle East but that are now at odds in fundamental ways.
...and unless they spend as much to purge Wahhabism as they spent to create it and allow their people to vote, we're enemies, not allies.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 12, 2015 8:44 PM
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