US President Donald Trump does not want the US to be involved in another war in the Middle East. He has an election in 2020 and won the last one partly on the promise to take American soldiers out of the line of fire in various conflicts.
But he cannot get away from the Faustian pact that was concluded by President Franklin D Roosevelt and Saudi King Abdul Aziz in 1945 on the USS Quincy while anchored in the Suez Canal. ..
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