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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Obama Blinks On Syria, Israel And Saudi Arabia Make Common Cause
JERUSALEM/RIYADH: If President Barack Obama has disappointed Syrian rebels by deferring to Congress before bombing Damascus, he has also dismayed the United States' two main allies in the Middle East.
Israel and Saudi Arabia have little love for each other but both are pressing their mutual friend in the White House to hit President Bashar al-Assad hard. And both do so with one eye fixed firmly not on Syria but on their common adversary Iran.
Israel's response to Obama's surprise move to delay or even possibly cancel air strikes made clear that connection: looking soft on Assad after accusing him of killing hundreds of people with chemical weapons may embolden his backers in Tehran to develop nuclear arms, Israeli officials said. And if they do, Israel may strike Iran alone, unsure Washington can be trusted.
Neither US ally is picking a fight with Obama in public. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the nation was "serene and self-confident"; Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal simply renewed a call to the "international community" to halt Assad's violence in Syria.
But the Saudi monarchy, though lacking Israel's readiness to attack Iran, can share the Jewish state's concern that neither may now look with confidence to Washington to curb what Riyadh sees as a drive by its Persian rival to dominate the Arab world.
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Crimson76
(79 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)God knows we give them enough damn aid.
Leave our military out of it.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)doc03
(35,364 posts)a couple hundred nukes and the best military in the middle east. If they want a fucking war
do it themselves!
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Wow!! Lmao!
doc03
(35,364 posts)65 years. I really don't know what Obama wants. I say if they want to
start a war do it, don't expect us to do their fighting forever.
doc03
(35,364 posts)a damn thing about Obama wanting to do anything.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Scuba
(53,475 posts)I didn't need to read any more.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Handjobs under the table, of course, but still, they're linked by being favored client states of the US.