The funny thing about a slavish “no daylight” approach to any international relationship is that it harms the relationship in question while discrediting the administration that is bending over backwards to preserve it.
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Trump puts keeping “no daylight” with client states ahead of securing American interests.
In defense of nothing. Jeremy and Shapiro use the administration’s decision to …
There is no good reason for the U.S. to continue indulging an abusive dictatorship that does so little to advance U.S. interests.
The rift between him and the president is impossible to ignore.
So long as denuclearization remains the goal of U.S. policy, that policy has no chance of success.
The kingdom has become a regional menace and a major liability to the U.S.
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The U.S. should be much less anxious about “losing” bad client states around the world than it has been, and the clients should be much more worried about losing U.S. backing than they are.
The U.S. is stupidly enabling destructive Saudi behavior and making America new enemies.
We should assume that she will get the U.S. involved in crises and conflicts that have not yet begun.
Time to stop holding Saudi Arabia’s hand. Jeremy Shapiro and Richard Sokolsky …
