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DarkTransient posted...

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely shitty that Trump doesn't, especially after saying he would, but he's hardly the first to be letting them get away with anything and helping them cover it up.

The difference this time is that Saudi Arabia actually lied openly.

Also, Barack Obama has openly criticized Saudi Arabia in the past--
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/world/middleeast/obama-criticizes-the-free-riders-among-americas-allies.html

In a series of interviews with The Atlantic magazine published Thursday, Mr. Obama said a number of American allies in the Persian Gulf as well as in Europe were free riders, eager to drag the United States into grinding sectarian conflicts that sometimes had little to do with American interests. He showed little sympathy for the Saudis, who have been threatened by the nuclear deal Mr. Obama reached with Iran.

The Saudis, Mr. Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazines national correspondent, need to find an effective way to share the neighborhood and institute some sort of cold peace. Reflexively backing them against Iran, the president said, would mean that we have to start coming in and using our military power to settle scores. And that would be in the interest neither of the United States nor of the Middle East.

Mr. Obamas frustration with much of the Arab world is not new, but rarely has he been so blunt about it. He placed his comments in the context of his broader struggle to extract the United States from the bloody morass of the Middle East so that the nation can focus on more promising, faster-growing parts of the world, like Asia and Latin America.
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