Justin Webb

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Years ago, at the height of the Arab Spring, I asked Zbigniew Brzezinski about prospects for democracy in Saudi Arabia. The grand old man of muscular American foreign policy — national security adviser to Jimmy Carter and a believer that the US had become “the first truly global power” — looked decidedly unimpressed.

“Democracy, in Saudi Arabia?” he rasped. “How do you know they wouldn’t elect Osama bin Laden?”

We moved on to other topics. America generally does move on to other topics when the subject of Saudi Arabia is raised. Those self-styled “grown-ups” who run US foreign policy regard any serious questioning of the relationship with the desert kingdom as a sign of weakness, pottiness, or childishness.…  Seguir leyendo »