As he repairs relations with Riyadh, President JoeBiden should do so with prudence, writes DanDePetris. 'He should not commit the U.S. to additional security burdens it can’t or shouldn’t sustain.'
Ordinarily, a meeting between the U.S. head of state and a top Saudi royal wouldn’t generate much coverage or controversy. U.S. presidents, after all, have been dealing with the Saudi royal family ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt met King Abdulaziz onboard the USS Quincy in 1945. Biden’s confab with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, however, could get a bit awkward. The two men have gone out of their way to avoid one another.
The notion the U.S. was going to cut all diplomatic communications with the Saudis, end all U.S. arms sales, and stop their bilateral strategic dialogue was always dubious. To label a country a pariah is to isolate and cease assistance to its leadership. Regardless of how petulant or crazed one may think Mohammed is, this was never going to be an option with the world’s largest oil producer. Especially now, when gas prices in some regions of the U.S. are over $5 a gallon.
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