An unholy union
PLUS: Marjorie Taylor Greene's ambitions, Lauren Boebert's misconduct, Trump returns to Iowa
No.
Never.
The United States of America should never sign a mutual defense pact with the despotic Saudi regime that obligates Americans to die for Saudi Arabian princes and sand.
Ever.
American soldiers are not Saudi Hessians.
If they need a volunteer to dig in for MBS and hold the line, Phil Mickelson, Jay Monahan, and any one of a number of their PR or lobbyist whores are available for martyrdom in the name of this guy:
Here is what President Biden said about the Saudi regime as a candidate:
I would make it very clear we were not going to in fact sell more weapons to them. We were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are. There is very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.
With regard to Yemen, Biden said he would “end the sale of material to the Saudis where they’re going in and murdering children.
That was the right position.
This is the wrong position. In fact, it is an immoral position and a grave insult to the 9/11 dead, their families, the Americans who worked on the toxic Ground Zero pile, including my father and the generation of Americans who served in the wars against extremism and terror.
That President Biden is considering such an unholy union is as preposterous as it is immoral, corrupt and dangerous. This paragraph from The New York Times is an astonishment given the administration ran on promising to reign in the Saudi menace:
The United States is discussing terms of a mutual defense treaty with Saudi Arabia that would resemble military pacts with Japan and South Korea, according to American officials. The move is at the center of President Biden’s high-stakes diplomacy to get the kingdom to normalize relations with Israel.
Comparing the medieval kingdom in which mass executions and death sentences for tweets are common to Japan and South Korea is an obscenity — and it is not accidental. It is the product of a slick propaganda campaign financed by the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry and Public Investment Fund (PIF) that is infesting American media, sports, business, defense industries, Congress, universities and agriculture with influence campaigns funded by petroleum dollars and executed by a laundry list of American firms functioning as Saudi agents. The dimensions of the Saudi influence campaign in the United States and the extent of the kingdom’s influence are being investigated by the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Richard Blumenthal. He has expanded his probe into PIF’s deal with the PGA Tour to “effectively control professional golf in the US” to include all PIF investments in the country. This is an urgent matter.
First, the United States government has a moral obligation to declassify all records associated with the 9//11/01 attacks and all information involving all details of Saudi government involvement and knowledge. There should be no sovereign immunity afforded Saudi murderers from the families of 9/11 and the recovery workers.
Second, the orders of a murderous despot dismembered a Washington Post columnist via bone saw in a Saudi embassy.
What this means is that no American should ever defend a single inch of Saudi territory. Our interests there are illusions. The Saudis are untrustworthy, immoral and profoundly corrupt. Our nations have no permanent ties, few shared values and no future together in a world where Saudi Arabia ruthlessly murders dissidents, crushes free speech, commits brutal war crimes against religious minorities and threatens America’s economy via petro extortions. There is no price worth paying to get in bed with the Saudis.
North America holds the world’s largest energy reserves. We are self-sufficient. Let the Saudis choke on their oil and extortions. The greatest illusion of our age is the demented notion that the United States needs Saudi Arabia more than the Saudis need the United States. There is no deal between the United States, Bibi Netanyahu’s extremist and anti-democratic coalition and MBS that should ever be ratified by the United States Senate. Ever. It is nauseating and would count as a foreign policy blunder of staggering dimensions in an era in which they have accumulated on top of themselves for a generation.
The answer is “no” on this question. President Biden’s administration is making a tremendous political and security mistake regarding this effort.
Every American should be appalled.
In my latest commentary, I talk about the reported vice presidential ambitions of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the misdeeds of Lauren Boebert, and Trump's return to Iowa as challengers like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley look to unseat him:
I'm not at all sure I agree with your position this time because I'm not sure of all the facts... yes, it is horrible to work with the Saudis' murderous MLB but I'm not crazy about working with Isreal's Bibi either. However, I think we all know what will happen in Putin's war, if we don't try to stabilize the Middle East before the alliances leading to WW3 begin to develop. So we do need stability in the Middle East and these are the people we have to work with. Corporate America and the Republicans had the stomach to work with the Saudi's for oil and then the outrage when they embargoed it ( of course they blamed the Carter administration). I do think that I'm a little perplexed that the only time you mention Biden is to criticize his administrations discussions and most of the time you are bashing Trump and the house cabal....you are very adept at straddling the line...but I have noticed you can go on and on about your love of America and never mention anything good that Biden is doing for America...do you think he enjoys working with MLB? I don't. Maybe your intelligence would be better utilized by discussing with your paid subscribers WHY he is taking this on even though it will provoke outrage such as yours. Why are you fanning the flames?
American romance with wealth and power motivates its leadership to kneel at the feet of the likes of bin Salman and Putin. Biden is no different. “Until we can get the cash” should be added most prominently after “We will never forget” because a swooning Biden is as motivated by wealth as a anyone we’ve seen.
American leadership believes that aligning itself with the richest regimes, is somehow righteous, ignoring human dignity violations/ abuses, and downright murder, all permeating throughout, right down to the love affair with the NRA; ignoring our own death count of gun violence and the children they allow slaughtered.
When will this obsession with wealth end? When will the richest companies, stop taking and start giving to the American people who put them there? When will vapid mega-churches, stop begging it’s followers for more, to stock-pile in their evangelist’s mega-mansions? When will our leaders stop kneeling at the feet of anybody from whom they think they can get another shekel?
How, how, how, do we turn this around?
The American people have the power. It’s in their vote. Right now, even the democrats are refusing viable candidates who are attempting to run against Biden. Ones with ideas about re-aligning our world order. Gerry-meandering, and voter intimidation are weapons of a duopoly that doesn’t want to let go of its power. Getting that cash- that’s another way of keeping power.
It’s up to an INFORMED electorate. It’s up to us Keep writing Steve- keep pointing out how wrong this love affair is. Your listeners will turn their heads to listen to others. This all cannot be overstated.