By Cliff May... Bio: http://townhall.com/columnists/cliffmay/
10/24/2013
The Saudis have a point. Those words do not flow easily from
my pen. For more than three decades, the Arabian royals have spent billions of
petro-dollars promoting Wahhabism, a poisonously anti-Western interpretation of
Islam, of which the most lethal expression is bin Ladenism.
But now the Saudis are angry with the Obama administration.
The reasons include “inaction over Syria’s civil war as well as recent U.S.
overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy” told Reuters on Tuesday.
“The shift away from the U.S. is a major one,” the source said. now how to
treat the United States, “We are learning from our enemies ” Saudi
security analyst Mustafa Alani told the Wall Street Journal last
month. [___]..
Excerpt: In apparent
exasperation, the Saudis have turned down an opportunity to serve for a two-year term on the U.N.
Security Council. They are particularly distressed by the U.N.S.C.’s refusal to
take action against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, whom the Saudis see as Iran’s
satrap.
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