Robert Parry: Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance
from Consortium News:
Neocons Push Israeli-Saudi Alliance
October 29, 2013
Exclusive: Early U.S. presidents warned against the dangers of entangling alliances, prescient advice that the neocons want President Obama to ignore amid demands from Israel and Saudi Arabia that America tie itself up in the endless and bloody sectarian conflicts of the Middle East, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
American neocons are rallying to the new Israeli-Saudi alliance by demanding that President Barack Obama engage more aggressively against the two countries foes in the Middle East, thus bolstering Israeli and Saudi confidence, as the Washington Posts deputy editorial-page editor Jackson Diehl declared.
For years, the Washington Post has served as Official Washingtons neocon flagship, bristling in support of every hawkish demand for U.S. intervention in the Mideast, most notably assembling a flotilla of misguided consensus in support of President George W. Bushs 2003 invasion of Iraq and then pounding any American skeptics who dared emerge over the horizon.
Diehls column on Monday represented an extension of the neocons knee-jerk support of Israeli interests to those of the Saudi monarchy, Israels new secret friend. Diehl hoisted the banner of this odd-couple alliance in excoriating President Obama for letting down these two allies as they maneuver to crush whats known as the Shiite crescent extending from Iran through Iraq and Syria to the Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.
In sync with the regional interests of Saudi Arabia and Israel, Diehl argued that the United States should toughen up its military posture in the Middle East with the goal of reshaping conditions on the ground, specifically going after Bashar al-Assads regime in Syria and damaging the new Iranian government of President Hassan Rouhani, or in Diehls words, weakening Assad (and) degrading Iranian strength. ......................(more)
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