This
is the worst yet
Has
there been a more disgusting spectacle during the four months of this
presidency than the sight of Donald Trump slobbering all over the
barbarous Saudi monarch and his murderous family of petty
princelings? It’s enough to make any normal American retch,
especially when one remembers what Trump said about them during the
election:
“Saudi
Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to
the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary
must return all money from such countries!”
And
then there was this tweet:
“Tell
Saudi Arabia and others that we want (demand!) free oil for the next
ten years or we will not protect their private Boeing 747s. Pay up!”
Now
Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is calling up Lockheed-Martin to
get a discount for the Saudis, personally brokering the biggest arms
deal in US history. What a difference a presidency makes!
The
old Trump told us that the Saudis were “mouth pieces, bullies,
cowards,” who were “paying ISIS,” but now they’re our
partners in the “war on terrorism.” Why it seems like only
yesterday that he was calling out Saudi princes like Alwaleed bin
Talal for thinking they can “control our US politicians” –
today he’s kowtowing to them.
Most
tellingly, it was Trump who made a campaign issue out of the missing
28 pages redacted from the Joint congressional report on the 9/11
terrorist attacks. In calling for their release, he painted a
scenario in which the Saudi royals assisted the hijackers and said:
“You
know, it’s sort of nice to know who your friends are, and perhaps
who your enemies are.”
Does
Trump know who are our friends and who are our enemies?
While
the US government, under both Trump and Obama, has routinely
maintained that Iran is the biggest exporter of terrorism, that is
utter nonsense: the Saudis easily outdo the mullahs of Tehran. Riyadh
funds radical madrassas throughout the world that preach pure hatred
of the West: they are incubators of terrorism, and have been wreaking
havoc from one end of the globe to the other for decades. The
terrorist groups that have destroyed Syria are the progeny of the
Saudis, and their allies among the Gulf states.
Most
shameful of all, the Saudis have invaded nearby Yemen, slaughtering
children and women with impunity, bombing funeral processions, and
causing a famine that will kill hundreds of thousands of
noncombatants: the very young, the sick, and the old. And they’re
doing it with US assistance, a pact signed in blood under the Obama
administration, now continued and beefed up under Trump.
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