Will Obama recognize the Armenia genocide on April 24? (user search)
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« on: April 20, 2015, 08:49:47 AM »

For some reason, US foreign policy is based on the principle of being tough and domineering with all your allies, except Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are treated with undue leniency and respect. So, probably not.

Why is that the case?  I mean...if we're tough and domineering with everyone else and successfully so...why these three?

Israel: do you need to ask?

Saudi Arabia: Oil plus a long and close relationship between the elite's in both countries, and for all the ugly things, which can be said about the Saud Family, they're still better on all parameters than anything which would replace them (the best case would be a unpleasant congo-style war, where their neighbours partitioned them). Also the Saudi if we ignore their support for anti-American terrorism, have been very loyal to long term American strategic goals. Much more so than most European or Asian allies of USA.

Turkey: In this category I would also include Greece. Both countries have a important strategic position, especially when USSR still existed. Of course the fall of USSR together with the instability of Greece and "illoyality" of the Turkish government (toward American and to lesser extent European interests), means that USA have more and more begun to ignore these two countries interest. Kobane was a clear example that USA barely see the Turks as allies anymore.
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