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It’s hard to take bin Salman’s role as a reformer, or his purge of corruption,
seriously when in the last year alone he paid $425 million for a da Vinci
painting, sent an emissary to immediately purchase a yacht he like the look of
for $550 million and purchased a chateau for $300 million.

I have traveled in both Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Wahhabism that gave us 17
of the 911 hijackers continues to be a force in Saudi political and cultural
life. In Iran, despite the machinations of its brutal and corrupt government,
there is far greater tolerance for the West and Americans in particular. And
there are serious challenges to the government from the Iranian people. In
Saudi Arabia one wonders—should the House of Saud fall— would an even more
regressive regime take hold?

Just as Trump has completely ignored the attacks Putin has orchestrated
against the American people and just as he ignores the threat Putin poses to
the U.S. and western ideals, so too is he ignoring the security of Americans
by a full-throated embrace of Saudi Arabia and an all out push to dismantle
the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration. The collapse of
the nuclear deal would strengthen hard-liners in Iran end ensure the enmity of
the Iranian people against the U.S. as a war with Isreal and or the U.S. would
almost certainly follow.

With so much at stake, suggestions that Trump’s business and personal
interests are driving U.S. policies are truly terrifying.

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