(Congress Report) – Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, made an appearance on the Fox News program, “Sunday Night in America,” where he went on to urge Joe Biden to try and “find a way to work with the Saudi government going forward.”
According to a report from Breitbart, Cotton then admitted that Saudi Arabia is not a “perfect partner,” but pointed out that the Middle Eastern nation has been a fairly “reliable” ally against the threat posed by the nation of Iran. You know, the people who regularly shout “death to America” just for the fun of it.
“[T]he Saudi government and Trump administration addressed the regrettable killing of Jamal Khashoggi four years ago. What we have to realize, though, is that Saudi Arabia has been a partner for 80 years. Are they a perfect partner? No, but no one is. And if we only took perfect partners … we would have no partners or allies. It’s a dangerous world out there. It’s not a church picnic. We take our allies where we can find them. Saudi Arabia, like so many other Arab nations, have been reliable allies against Iran, which still to this day chants ‘Death to America,’” the Arkansas Republican said during the interview.
“And for 80 years, American presidents of both parties have figured out ways to work with Saudi Arabia,” he went on to say. “Joe Biden comes along though says he’s going to treat them like a pariah and ostracize them. And it’s not surprising that he didn’t accomplish much on this trip for that reason. I hope he can find a way to work with the Saudi government going forward as it works ever more closely with other friends we have in the region like Israel to try to stand up to Iran’s campaign of terror and imperial aggression. It would make us all safer.”
At this point in his administration, Joe Biden cannot really afford any more screw ups, at home or abroad. Especially after last year’s troop withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan that ended up undoing all of the sacrifice and hard work the U.S. had poured into the region since 2001 by allowing the Taliban to take things over.
Biden is already one of the most unpopular individuals to ever occupy the Oval Office. His approval rating is swirling down the drain. Another major mess, especially one that involves our national security, would surely result in the implosion of the entire Democratic Party, not to mention leaving us in a dangerous, vulnerable position geopolitically.
We’re vulnerable enough with the border crisis still in full swing in the southern portion of the country.
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