Re-looking our Middle East Alliances
U.S. foreign policy is steeped in the elitism and continued missed opportunities. The U.S. President is hell bent to ignore facts on the ground and unilaterally disrupt international conventions. Recently, this is evident in U.S. Middle Eastern foreign policy. President Trump, in his trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, reaffirmed an undying loyalty and alliance with the Saudi government while demonizing Iran. CREDIT: SAUDI TV Our continued unadulterated loyalty to Saudi Arabia is unnerving and naive. Abdulaziz al-Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, consolidated power on the peninsula backed by the Wahhabi Islamic movement, an ultra-conservative branch of Islam. Today, many national security experts point to Wahhabists as the ideological source of global terrorists (as a side note 15 of the 19 September 11th hijackers were from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Even with the well documented cases of terrorism perpetrated by Saudi nationals schooled in Wahhabism, our national secu