what is the fate of the house of saud gets a list of complaints against washington riyadh's well known protector is long and getting longer the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and determined to export its radical form of islam and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. to cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he is the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross-talk roles in fact i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound sand. well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan mad

all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent foreign policy. to cross-talk saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the national coordinator of the answer coalition and in nashville we cross to mark levine he is a senior fellow with the truman national security project and a radio show host or a gentleman cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage you brian is it time for washington to tell saudi arabia to pound sand well i think it's been long established that the u.s. government considers the saudi government to be an indispensable ally not its only ally and perhaps now not its principal ally but certainly an important one ronald reagan made it clear more than thirty years ago that there would be quote no revolution in saudi arabia because the us was just absolutely determined to keep the absoluteness monarch in power there not because they care so much about what's going on inside of saudi arabia but because they consider it to be essential is the main oil export o

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this relationship -- are not shared at all, that we don't have anything really in common with the house of saud with an absolute monarchy with their views that are other end of the spectrum. we support democracy. they make no pretense of supporting democracy and we saw that vividly this year in egypt. the saudis were critical to the coup, to helping the coup take place. they were the first within minutes to recognize the new government and they orchestrated a multibillion dollar aid package to the government. the statements say, don't worry what the americans do, we'll outbid them. the americans give you a billion dollars, we'll make sure you get $6 billion. it's hard to have a lot of leverage on on a country that has this much money. when it comes to iran, my own view at the end of the day, if the united states in the p-5 plus one succeeds in getting a deal with the iranians which the six negotiating parties accept, the saudis will accept it as well. they do not want to be the odd man out rejecting the deal that would be in effect the permanent five members of the security council and the iran

this relationship -- are not shared at all, that we don't have anything really in common with the house of saud with an absolute monarchy with their views about gender equality that are at the other end of the spectrum. we support democracy. they make no pretense of supporting democracy and we saw that vividly this year in egypt. the saudis were critical to the coup, to helping the coup take place. they were the first within minutes to recognize the new government and they orchestrated a multibillion dollar aid package to the government. the statements say, don't worry what the americans do, we'll outbid them. the americans give you a billion dollars, we'll make sure you get $6 billion. it's hard to have a lot of leverage on a country that has this much money. when it comes to iran, my own view at the end of the day, if the united states in the p-5 plus one succeeds in getting a deal with the iranians which the six negotiating parties accept, the saudis will accept it as well. the saudi's do not want to be the odd man out rejecting the deal that would be in effect the permanent five members of