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Editors’ Pick

February 1, 2016

Why America Must Maintain Its Flawed Alliance with Saudi Arabia

It’s still a better ally than Iran.

The Saudi kingdom is governed by a repressive, illiberal regime that has used its wealth to disseminate the intolerant Wahhabi school of Islam across the globe. Nevertheless, argues David Pollock, Washington’s decades-old alliance with Riyadh is strategically beneficial, and all the more so when the alternative offered by proponents of abandoning it is rapprochement with Iran:

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