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A professed reformer, Crown Prince Mohammed opened movie theaters to women and allowed them to drive, and then jailed the social activists who had called for these reforms.<\/p>\n
Three years ago, he initiated the war on the Houthis, after the rebels ousted a pro-Saudi president and took over most of the country.<\/p>\n
And, since 2015, the crown prince has conducted a savage air war that has brought Houthi missiles down on his own country and capital.<\/p>\n
Yemen has become Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam.<\/p>\n
That our principal Arab ally in our confrontation with Iran, which could lead to yet another U.S. war, is a regime headed by so unstable a character should raise serious concerns about where it is we are going in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Have we not wars already?<\/p>\n
Do we not have enough enemies in the region \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Taliban, al-Qaida, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to be starting another war?<\/p>\n
As for our regional allies, consider.<\/p>\n
NATO ally Turkey, which is pressing the case against our Saudi allies, leads the world in the number of journalists jailed. Our Egyptian ally, Gen. al-Sissi, came to power in a military coup, and has imprisoned thousands of dissidents of the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n
While we have proclaimed Iran the “world’s greatest state sponsor of terror,” it is Yemen, where Saudi Arabia intervened in 2015, that is regarded as the world’s great human rights catastrophe.<\/p>\n
Moreover, Iran is itself suffering from terrorism.<\/p>\n
Last month, a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in the southwest was attacked by gunmen who massacred 25 soldiers and civilians in the deadliest terror attack in Iran in a decade.<\/p>\n
And like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, Iran suffers, too, from tribalism, with Arab secessionists in its southwest, Baloch secessionists in its southeast, and Kurd secessionists in its northwest.<\/p>\n
The U.S. cannot look aside at a royal Saudi hand in the murder of a U.S.-based journalist in its consulate in Istanbul. But before we separate ourselves from the Riyadh regime, we should ask what is the alternative if the House of Saud should be destabilized or fall?<\/p>\n
When Egypt’s King Farouk was overthrown in 1952, we got Nasser.<\/p>\n
When young King Faisal was overthrown in Baghdad in 1958, we eventually got Saddam Hussein. When King Idris in Libya was ousted in 1969, we got Qaddafi. When Haile Selassie was overthrown and murdered in Ethiopia in 1974, we got Col. Mengistu and mass murder. When the Shah was overthrown in Iran in 1979, we got the Ayatollah.<\/p>\n
As World War I, when four empires fell, testifies, wars are hell on monarchies. And if a new and larger Middle East war, with Iran, should break out in the Gulf, some of the Arab kings, emirs and sultans will likely fall.<\/p>\n
And when they do, history shows, it is not usually democrats who rise to replace them.<\/p>\n
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