Commentary: It’s time to leave Saudi Arabia to the wolves
by Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune
Apr 22, 2022
3 minutes
America’s long-standing partnership with Saudi Arabia has become a deal with the devil. But the devil isn’t holding up his end of the bargain. It’s time we gave up on it too.
It’s never been a good look for the United States, a self-proclaimed champion of democracy and human rights, to be the security guarantor of an abusive monarchy that treats women like property and long placed policing in the hands of an extremist religious faction.
And yet we justify this close partnership largely in the name of security — our secure access to oil, to
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