Fatal Friendship: Our ill-conceived vendetta against the Saudis
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Special to The Daily Star
Thursday, May 27, 2004
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"It is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States," Henry Kissinger used to say during the final years of Vietnam, "but to be a friend is fatal." The sordid tradition began at the Tehran summit in 1943. There FDR told Stalin he could keep that half of Poland that had been ceded to him in the Hitler-Stalin pact, even though Great Britain had gone to war to restore the territorial integrity of Poland.
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