Defending Democracy to the Last Drop of Oil
... The Saudis, who are also petrified of Iran, threw a fit,
threatening to pull $750 billion of investments from the US. Other
leaders of the Gulf sheikdoms sided with the Saudis but rather more
discreetly. Ignoring the stinging snub he had just suffered, Obama
assured the Saudis and Gulf monarchs that the US would defend them
against all military threats - in effect, reasserting their role as
western protectorates. So much for promoting democracy ... The
US-backed and supplied Saudi war against dirt-poor Yemen has shown its
military to be incompetent and heedless of civilian casualties. The
Saudis run the risk of becoming stuck in a protracted guerilla war in
Yemen's wild mountains. The US, Britain and France maintain discreet
military bases in the kingdom and Gulf coast.
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