Mideast: Both parties spent decades pulling Arab powers into the U.S. camp, despite hostility to our Israeli alliance. Saudi Arabia's Camp David snub shows how the president's misguided Iran deal squanders all that work.
Whose presidency will end up being judged worse, Barack Obama's or Jimmy Carter's? Whatever the answer, there's one significant distinction: President Obama wouldn't have been able to convince the Jews and Arabs to come together, as Carter got the Israelis and Egyptians to reach an agreement in the Camp David Accords.
In fact, Obama can't even get Saudi Arabia to meet with other Arabs at Camp David. King Salman won't be joining Obama for his confab with the Gulf Cooperation Council this week.
Apparently, the king feels he can confer with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates anytime, and without having to endure a lecture on how well the president's "New Beginning" with Muslims is going.
The State Department assured us Monday it was just a schedule reshuffle. "King Salman made this decision given what's going on in Yemen," we were told.
Well, in a way, yes. What's going on in Yemen — touted as a great U.S. counter-terrorism success story by Obama as recently as last fall — is a U.S. policy collapse and a proxy war that has erupted between Saudi Arabia and Iran. These hostilities between Sunni Saudi and radical Shiite Iran come as the U.S. actually woos Tehran as a potential pseudo-ally.Read the rest of the story HERE and view related videos below:
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