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Originally Posted by adidasss
Isn't there something about a representative democracy, especially the american one, where the constituents can get in touch with their representatives or civil rights pressure groups which could influence members of the parliament/congress to re-evaluate the status-quo? Lindsey Graham for example isn't toeing the line. Why not others? :occasional optimist:
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America isn't going to do anything to threaten Saudi oil exports. Our economy has already been brought low in the 70s by oil and whenever oil prices go up the country tenses up for good reason. The politicians know this, the American people know this, and both know that neither have the will to rock the boat for the sake of people on the other side of the planet when it will only end up in economic ****ery. Nothing will ever change until we lose our dependency on oil and at this point there's about a roughly equal amount of political will for that too.
And Saudi Arabia acting as a deterrent to Iran is also no small consideration for us.