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Washington, eager for their sup-
port in the anti-terror war and their
oil, ignores each new indication of
this perfidy. Sometimes, the results •
fall to the level of tragicomedy.
Recent news stories described how
a quasi-government group raised
money for Palestinian "martyrs"; the
White House spokesman, pressed on
the issue, lamely insisted that the
-
Saudis are being ."helpful."
Conservatives clamor for a harsh
U.S. response, but in the real world
of foreign policy, there are no good
options.
If we choose to treat Saudi Arabia
as an enemy, we risk very real eco-
nomic consequences, thanks to our
thirst for foreign oil. The Saudis
remain a top buyer of expensive U.S.
military technology, a market indus-
try lobbyists are loathe to abandon.
If we cut off the Saudis or treat
them harshly, we risk turning the
war on terror into exactly what we
wanted to avoid: a U.S. attack
against the entire Islamic world,
with no one on our side.
And we would increase the possi-
bility of the corrupt Saudi regime
falling, probably to be replaced by
something even worse — a corrupt,
repressive radical Islamic regime.
But there's no denying that Saudi
Arabia is, by any realistic measure, a
terror-sponsoring state. Iran and Iraq
are part of the "axis of evil"; what
qualities make Saudi Arabia not evil?
If the only answer is that "we need
their oil," the administration's moral
stance will be further eroded.
No easy answers, no safe alterna-
tives.
The last administration wasn't
troubled by such conflicts because it
simply ignored the mounting terror
threat while,pursing its dream of
Middle East peace.
But George W. Bush, forced to
confront the issue by the terrorists
who wrecked the World Trade
Center and blew a hole in the
Pentagon, laid out some moral
absolutes: on one side are the terror-
ists and the nations that support
them, on the other the good guys,
with no in-between.
Now, his administration has to
Find a better way to reconcile those
principles with the convoluted polit-
ical realities of that region. And it
needs to avoid lapsing back into the
comfortable, brit ultimately .destruc-
tive policy of diplomacy by wishful
thinking. Pretending that all our
goals in the region are fully compati-
ble won't make it so. Ti