US needs ‘radical restructuring’ of its policies in Mideast: Activist
The United States needs a “radical restructuring” of its policies in the Middle East and must end its long-time alliance with Saudi Arabia and Israel, an American political analyst and activist says.
“The Green Party of the US also calls for a radical restructuring of our policies in the Middle East but due to the enormity of control of the election process by the Democratic and Republican Parties, their voice is all but muted,” Myles Hoenig told Press TV on Sunday.
US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he would consider stopping American oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group.
Trump made the comment on Friday during a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the New York Times newspaper on Saturday and came in response to a question about whether, if elected president, he would halt oil purchases from US allies unless they provided on-the-ground forces against Daesh.
“Cutting off purchases from Saudi Arabia would certainly shift the balance of power in a different direction, with the conservative forces of Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the [Persian] Gulf States no longer maintaining a hegemony of power in the region,” Hoenig said.
“His threat to cut off oil sales from Saudi Arabia, unless they provide on the ground forces to fight Daesh, is a radical departure from the mainstream narrative of a hands off approach to the oil kingdom, to the point of allowing it to do what it has been allowed to get away with for decades,” he added.
Trump told the Times he was willing to rethink traditional US alliances should he become president.
“Without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for very long," Trump told the Times. "We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries. Now Saudi Arabia’s one of them."
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