{"id":41105,"date":"2018-11-30T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41105"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:50:46","slug":"pompeo-us-saudi-partnership-vital-american-taxpayers-may-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41105","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo: US\/Saudi Partnership &#8216;Vital&#8217; &#8211; American Taxpayers May Disagree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"uBlogsy_next_prev\"><a title=\"Pompeo: US\/Saudi Partnership 'Vital' - American Taxpayers May Disagree!\" href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2018\/november\/29\/pompeo-ussaudi-partnership-vital-american-taxpayers-may-disagree\/\">Pompeo: US\/Saudi Partnership &#8216;Vital&#8217; &#8211; American Taxpayers May Disagree!<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"uBlogsy_post uBlogsy_bottom_border\">\n<section class=\"uBlogsy_post_body\">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has published a bizarre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-u-s-saudi-partnership-is-vital-1543362363\">op-ed<\/a> in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Saudi Arabia has been a guarantor of stability in the Middle East and a bulwark against &#8220;expansionist&#8221; Iran. Perhaps he forgot about Saudi support for jihadists in Syria and the Saudi destruction of Yemen? Is carrying water for the murderous Saudi kingdom in the Middle East really the best way to demonstrate &#8220;American values,&#8221; as Pompeo claims? We break down Pompeo&#8217;s neocon screed in today&#8217;s Liberty Report:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6enJP1u_qQ\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pompeo: US\/Saudi Partnership &#8216;Vital&#8217; &#8211; American Taxpayers May Disagree! Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has published a bizarre op-ed in the Wall Street Journal claiming that Saudi Arabia has been a guarantor of stability in the Middle East and a bulwark against &#8220;expansionist&#8221; Iran. Perhaps he forgot about Saudi support for jihadists in Syria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14827,441,522,15128,14830,701,827,861,901],"class_list":["post-41105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-daniel-madams","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41106,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41105\/revisions\/41106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}