[VIDEO IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal criticized the Obama administration for not having a cohesive policy in the Middle East, in an appearance on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ program.
“The biggest concern we have in Saudi Arabia and many of the Arab countries is that we need cohesive, coherent and comprehensive policy for the Mideast,” Prince Bin Talal told host Joe Scarborough. “For example, when President Obama draws the red line where by the chemical weapons are used in Syria, and that red line is crossed, very bluntly and openly. Then he just reneges and blinks on that and gives Putin the chance to go back from, not the back door but from the main entrance, at least from the Middle East and Egypt, that’s scary and dangerous.”
The Saudi Prince explained that the President’s inconsistency on Syria resulted in the present Syrian regime staying in power.
“The flip side of that is that Bashar is staying now for a long time to come,” he said. “Because now, there is an unsigned contract between the United States and the regime in Syria now to get the chemical weapons. And for sure, the last thing the Obama Administration would like right now is to change the regime. Because we’re not sure if these jihadists, these terrorist jihadists take over they will not continue in that part of giving up the chemical weapons. That’s the flip side of it also. That’s where the foreign policy confusion comes up.”
Prince Bin Talal also questioned the Obama administration’s support of Morsi, before he was ousted by a military coup. “Frankly speaking, neither United States more any other power in the world could have done anything to salvage the Hosni Mubarak regime, So the era of Mubarak clearly came to an end when this major rebellion took place,” he said. “However, we’ve seen the alternative. When Morsi took over, we’ve seen now this, the guy was heading in the direction of one man, one vote, one time. Which is really disastrous.”
The prince also expressed a similar voice of concern regarding the current deal in the works between the P5+1 and Iran over its nuclear program, saying Saudi Arabia, as well as other Arab countries, are “very worried and concerned about having a bad deal” with Iran.
(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)
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