So libs are opposed to Saudi Arabia now? What's going on?
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My take is that I'm not too keen on the Saudis because they seem to be pushing/funding global Islam, and that naturally libs would tend to like them for that.
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I think it depends on the liberals in question. But Clinton and Obama's relationship with Saudi Arabia was a policy of the American state, not of the Democratic Party. Bush was like that and Trump started that way too. Saudi Arabia, so says the establishment of foreign policy, is
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an extremely important geopolitical ally of the United States. And the two parties basically follow the same foreign policy. Paleoconservatives, libertarians and anti-war leftists are all set aside as non-serious people. Regarding the regional conflict involving Assad,
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Saudi Arabia has its own interests in ensuring that Iran and its religious peers do not gain much more influence. Republicans have always been enthusiastic about the idea of removing Assad, so was Clinton to be fair, but not Obama. Anyway, the leftists I followed / follow always
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complain about the extreme authoritarianism and conservatism of the government of Saudi Arabia. They even say that opposing the State of Israel for their abuses does not make one a racist more than opposing the Saudi State for its abuses does. So it's a talking point on the left
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to criticize Saudi Arabia. With regard to the Saudi state funding for radical Islam, I have also often heard leftists complain about it. It is one of the politically correct ways in which you can criticize the ideology of terrorism because you are placing blame for the problem in
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the Saudi state, rather than the religion in itself. Denouncing Saudi Arabia for being responsible for a expansion of a bad version of the religion, and for its funding of mosques in Europe and the like, are quite common on the left.
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