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Saudis waiting for Obama to leave because they think the next president will go back to being friendly to the Saudis.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...sty-shock-when-obama-steps-down-a6996371.html
The only difference I have with the above comment is that Obama has also been operationally unfriendly to the Saudis in a major way. I am referring to Syria : Obama did not bomb Assad despite furious campaigning on the part of the Saudis to get the US to bomb Assad. Now on Yemen, the US does help the Saudis to a degree.
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Moving along, the Indy article also says this:
If Hillary takes office I don't think she will be critical of Saudi . Hillary has taken money from wealthy Sunni mideast Autocrats and was gung-ho about bombing Assad. For Saudi, Hillary is far more preferable than Donald.
The Saudi leaders are more or less openly saying that they are waiting for the departure of President Obama from the White House to resume their status of most favoured ally of the US. The permanently anti-Saudi bias of the present administration, though usually verbal rather than operational, came across clearly in the interviews with Mr Obama and his top officials in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg. He says that “in the White House these days, one occasionally hears Obama’s National Security Officials pointedly reminding visitors that the large majority of 9/11 hijackers were not Iranian, but Saudi".
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...sty-shock-when-obama-steps-down-a6996371.html
The only difference I have with the above comment is that Obama has also been operationally unfriendly to the Saudis in a major way. I am referring to Syria : Obama did not bomb Assad despite furious campaigning on the part of the Saudis to get the US to bomb Assad. Now on Yemen, the US does help the Saudis to a degree.
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Moving along, the Indy article also says this:
But the Saudis are making a mistake in imagining that hostility to them will dissipate once Mr Obama leaves office. There is renewed pressure for the release of the unpublished 28 pages in the official Congressional 9/11 report on possible Saudi official complicity in the attacks, with CBS’s influential and widely watched 60 Minutes devoting a segment to it, thereby putting it back on the political agenda. “Saudi Arabia legitimises Islamic extremism and intolerance around the world,” states an op-ed by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times. “”If you want to stop bombings in Brussels or San Bernardino, then turn off the spigots of incitement from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.” Not only is there a growing anti-Saudi mood in the US, but it is one of the few political developments common to both parties.
If Hillary takes office I don't think she will be critical of Saudi . Hillary has taken money from wealthy Sunni mideast Autocrats and was gung-ho about bombing Assad. For Saudi, Hillary is far more preferable than Donald.