{"id":218224,"date":"2016-01-22T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/neocons-flack-for-unsavory-saudis\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:05:24","slug":"neocons-flack-for-unsavory-saudis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/neocons-flack-for-unsavory-saudis\/","title":{"rendered":"Neocons Flack for Unsavory Saudis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exclusive:<\/strong> Since Israel decided that Iran was its big enemy \u2014 and made Saudi Arabia its quiet ally<\/a> \u2014 American neocons have fallen in line, demanding that the U.S. government punish Iran and coddle the Saudis whatever their unsavory behavior, notes Daniel Lazare.<\/p>\n

By Daniel Lazare<\/p>\n

Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor who writes The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u2019s weekly \u201cGlobal View\u201d column, is not really a bad prose stylist, and his logic is not always unsound. But his unexamined assumptions lead him astray.<\/p>\n

His latest installment<\/a> is typical.\u00a0Entitled \u201cWhy the U.S. Should Stand by the Saudis Against Iran,\u201d it begins with\u00a0not\u00a0one premise, but two. The first, as the title suggest, is that the U.S. should stand by Riyadh in its time of woes.\u00a0The second is that if the kingdom stumbles, only one person is to blame \u2014\u00a0President Obama.<\/p>\n

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