With Biden, America's Friends Need to Watch Their Backs
By Ira Stoll
Tuesday, 15 February 2022 11:09 AM
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“America will have the backs of our friends in the region.”
That was the final sentence of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s February 10 White House statement responding to a terrorist attack that killed at least a dozen civilians in Saudi Arabia.
Sullivan surely intended it sincerely. To anyone who has been watching what has been happening in the Biden administration, though, the language sounds more like bitter comedy, or at best, wishful thinking.
Note the future tense. Not “America has the backs of our friends,” but “America will have the backs.”
Maybe when a different president takes over.
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