Saudi Prince Tells U.S. Congress to Get Over Its Frustrations
Prince Turki Al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and an influential royal family member, told U.S. lawmakers to get off their “high moralistic horses” as ties between the historical allies remain frayed a year after the murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Prince Turki criticized congressional representatives on Wednesday for the “horror” and “disdain” they express for Saudi Arabia, saying U.S. lawmakers are unable to perform their jobs to address “issues of racism and racial inequality” and to reform gun ownership laws. He also said that most U.S. media has a “consistently blinkered view” of Saudi Arabia, one that portrays negative events in the kingdom as “being the norm.”
Prince Turki spoke at an event in Washington about a week before Saudi Arabia hosts its annual investment forum, the Future Investment Initiative. The Oct. 29-31 event is set to attract some of Wall Street’s top dealmakers, as well as representatives from major institutional investors across the globe, after many skipped the forum last year.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Jared Kushner, a White House adviser and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, plan to attend the investment event.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-24/saudi-prince-tells-u-s-congress-to-get-over-its-frustrations?srnd=politics-vp
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Other than giving you weapons and billions of dollars and burying the Saudi connections to 9/11, yeah the USA has really treated you like crap.