Saudi Arabia 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/12/2021
Congress May Have To Act To Punish Saudi Arabia
by David M. Wight
Political pressures have made US presidents less disposed than Congress to impose limits on the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. If arms sales are to be a lever for change in the kingdom, it will probably be up to Congress to make it happen.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/11/2021
On Shedding an Obsolete Past
by Andrew Bacevich
"Sadly, Joe Biden and his associates appear demonstrably incapable of exchanging the history that they know for a history on which our future may well depend. As a result, they will cling to an increasingly irrelevant past."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/11/2021
Joe Biden is Making Clear that Saudi Human Rights Violations Won’t be Ignored
by Nicholas DeAntonis
President Biden's recent affirmation of an American commitment to human rights in discussions with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud fell short of many demands for action against the Saudi regime. But it is a step in reforming a relationship in which human rights have not been an afterthought, but a non-thought.
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2/14/2021
How Abraham Lincoln Can Inspire Peace for Yemen
by William Lambers
The postwar "friendship train" campaign involved Americans personally in delivering food to the hungry in Europe, and symbolized the nation's larger commitment to the Marshall Plan. A similar broad effort could help advance the policies needed to end the humanitarian crisis of war and starvation in Yemen.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
5/25/2020
9/11 Families Outraged by 'Massive Coverup’ Linking Saudi Arabian Official to Hijackers
The recent inadvertent revelation of the name of a Saudi official believed to have aided the 9/11 hijackers has renewed calls by many victims' families for much greater transparency about the Saudi regime's involvement in the attacks.
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4/17/2020
The Saudis, the Jews, and FDR's Dog: The Opening of the US-Saudi Relationship
by Rafael Medoff
Recent commemorations of FDR's diplomatic meeting with King Abdul Aziz in 1945 obscure unsavory aspects of the origins of the US-Saudi relationship.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/5/20
The United States and Saudi Arabia aren’t allies. They never have been.
by Ellen R. Wald
One of our key ideas about the Middle East is wrong.
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SOURCE: NY Times
9/16/19
Iran Might Be America’s Enemy, but Saudi Arabia Is No Friend
by Andrew J. Bacevich
Bacevich argues that after last week’s refinery attack, Trump should be careful about throwing America’s weight behind an unreliable “ally.”
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
11-27-18
Our Man in Riyadh
by Andrew Bacevich
Abizaid of Arabia
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SOURCE: NYT
Saudi Textbook Withdrawn Over Image of Yoda With King
How they had ended up together in a textbook in a country with no public movie theaters was anyone’s guess. Even the Saudi artist who created the image had no idea.
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6-25-17
The Trump Doctrine in the Middle East Is to Follow Saudi Arabia’s Lead
by James L. Gelvin
This explains what sparked the Saudi-Qatari Cold War.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-13-17
How the Saudi-Qatar Rivalry, Now Combusting, Reshaped the Middle East
Few countries have ever grown from client state to regional power. Qatar managed it in just a few years.
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5-30-17
Why is the U.S. So Committed to Saudi Arabia?
by Aaron Brown
Is maintaining the U.S.-Saudi relationship in its current condition worth all of the other headaches that accompany it?
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SOURCE: Daniel Pipes Blog
5-21-17
Trump's Saudi Speech: Pretty Good
by Daniel Pipes
It's a mixed performance, but overall positive.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
5-21-17
Trump in Absolute Monarchy during Iran’s Election
by Juan Cole
The day the Iranian public bucked the country’s Leader and the other hard liners and put centrist President Hassan Rouhani back in for a second term, the US president was feted with gold metals in an absolute monarchy.
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SOURCE: Middle East Eye
Why Iran and Saudi Arabia don't get along
by Mansour Farhang
It's complicated.
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SOURCE: The World Weekly
5-30-16
Revealed: Nixon cut secret deal with Saudis in 1974 that undergirded relations for 4 decades
The Saudis agreed to use petrodollars earned from the sale of oil to US to purchase treasury bonds to finance our debt.
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SOURCE: NYT
1-12-16
Persian (or Arabian) Gulf Is Caught in the Middle of Regional Rivalries
As tensions escalate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a dispute over the name of the body of water between them illustrates the disagreements at the heart of their dispute.
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1-6-16
Is Saudi Arabia a Threat to the United States?
by Giovanni Tortoriello
An interview with expert David Commins.
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SOURCE: Informed Comment
1-23-15
How Stable is Saudi Arabia?
by Juan Cole
"The borders of the kingdom are insecure as seldom before in recent decades."
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