Dump Our Double Dealing Thuggish Allies: Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Ted Galen Carpenter - The National Interest
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/dump-our-double-dealing-thuggish-allies-15957
... With the dissolution of the USSR at the end of 1991, and the
disappearance of even an arguable existential threat to America's
security, maintaining close relationships with corrupt, murderous
autocrats became harder and harder to justify. Today, two such
relationships should have especially become acute embarrassments for
Washington. One is the decades-old strategic and economic partnership
with Saudi Arabia (and indirectly with Riyadh's smaller Gulf client
states). The other is the multilayered partnership with fellow NATO
member Turkey. From both the standpoint of American interests and
American values, those associations cry out for termination ...
Washington's alliances with Ankara and Riyadh were questionable even
during earlier eras. They have long outlived whatever usefulness they
may once have had.
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