7/22/22 Doug Bandow on Biden’s Saudi Trip and Awful Middle East Policy

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 23 July 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Scott talks with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bandow about an article he wrote recently for The American Conservative. Bandow gives his take on Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia. He thinks the Saudis were purposefully disrespectful to the U.S. President and that Biden just took it. Bandow explains the ways Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been changing how Saudi Arabia oppresses its people — rolling back religious tyranny while expanding political tyranny. Finally, Scott and Bandow take a step back and examine the Biden Administration’s approach to the entire Middle East region, which Bandow says is really just a continuation of Trump’s policies. Discussed on the show: “Joe Biden Grovels to the Saudis” (The American Conservative) “Biden says he confronted Saudis directly on Khashoggi” (The Washington Post) Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a regular contributor at Forbes Magazine, the National Interest, Antiwar.com, and elsewhere. He’s on Twitter @Doug_Bandow. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Okay guys on the line, I've got Cato Institute Senior Fellow Doug Bondo,
0:51.0	and of course he writes for us at anti-war.com and here he is in the American
0:55.4	conservative magazine that's the American conservative dot com.
0:59.8	Joe Biden grovels to the Saudis. Oh say it ain't so Doug he wouldn't do anything like that.
1:05.1	America's the empire and Saudi Arabia is the client state. I read that in a
1:09.6	magazine somewhere. Yeah you would think that.
1:13.0	I mean, you look at the countries, you know, you would think the U.S. was a superpower and would be the
1:17.2	one that would kind of order the Saudis around, but it turns out it's the other way around.
1:21.2	Yeah, it's funny that it's just the energy but you know what we don't even import that much oil from the Saudis do we?
1:30.0	No, one of the great things with fracking and other energy developments has been that the U.S. has become a major energy exporter.
1:38.0	You know, the Saudis provide more oil to the Chinese, at least they did it until the Chinese started buying a lot of Russian
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