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The Saudis are an odious bunch, but they are the main power broker in the Middle East. As is often the case in foreign affairs, you have to team up with dickheads to thwart even bigger dickheads. Saving the French from the Nazis was unpleasant, but they were less odious than the Nazis. That’s the way it is with the Saudis. They will cause trouble for us, but nothing like what we get from the other players. The Bush family took this too far and acted like sock puppets for the Saudi Royal Family, but what Obama is doing is damned near criminal. This guy is such a fuck up, no one wants to be around him. That’s the issue here. It is the stunning incompetence of Obama that has the Saudis walking away from us.
In unusually blunt public remarks, Prince Turki al-Faisal called Obama’s policies in Syria ‘lamentable’ and ridiculed a U.S.-Russian deal to eliminate Assad’s chemical weapons. He suggested it was a ruse to let Obama avoid military action in Syria.
‘The current charade of international control over Bashar’s chemical arsenal would be funny if it were not so blatantly perfidious. And designed not only to give Mr. Obama an opportunity to back down (from military strikes), but also to help Assad to butcher his people,’ said Prince Turki, a member of the Saudi royal family and former director of Saudi intelligence.
Diplomats are not going to say Obama is a moron and they want nothing to do with him, but that’s what they are telling people. It is one thing to have a bad policy. It is one thing to poorly execute a policy. Shit happens and we get stuff wrong all the time. The clown show in the White House has no clue and staggers around like a drunk ten year old with a loaded gun. The one thing diplomats fear most is unpredictability. Nations with erratic leaders find themselves alone. That’s where we find ourselves now. The NSA spying, the numerous blunders in the Middle East and a hostility to longtime allies has the world talking about life after America.
It will take a generation to fix what President Fuckup has broken.
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