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fredag, januari 28, 2011

Will Obama ‘lose’ Saudi Arabia?


"--- Were the protests that began in Tunisia and have now spread to Yemen and Egypt to spread to Saudi Arabia, President Obama would be confronted with a historic decision on a par with the one Jimmy Carter faced in the second half of what ended up to be his one-term presidency. With the Shah of Iran – a long-time and faithful U.S. ally falling to street protests in 1979 – Mr. Carter chose not to intervene. The U.S. has been living with the consequences of that decision ever since. Whether Mr. Obama would make a similar decision in 2011 is a question that no doubt is being cogitated right now at the highest levels of his Administration.---"

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