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Demeter

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9. Is America's relationship with Saudi Arabia broken beyond repair?

Fri Mar 28, 2014, 08:36 PM

Mar 2014

WE SHOULD BE SO LUCKY...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/28/barack-obama-saudi-arabia-syria-iran?CMP=ema_565

Barack Obama arrives in Riyadh seeking rapprochement with an aggrieved Arab ally whose interests are increasingly at odds with its key western backer.

The president's flying visit – no more than an evening in the Saudi King's palace – is his first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, which drove an initial wedge between both capitals.

Ever since, relations have tangibly soured, with US outreach to Iran and ambivalence on Syria, particularly irking Saudi leaders who believe arch-foe Tehran has been empowered at their expense.

So bothered has Riyadh become by what it sees as naive appeasement of Iran, that it now seems ready to project itself regionally without US cover....

GOOD IDEA, SAUDS. GET YOUR OWN BACKSIDES SHOT OFF, FOR ONCE...

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