Saudi Arabia Guarantees: Hell No to New U.S. Security Guarantees to Saudi Arabia

In July, when the Biden White House floated the idea — via a gauzy Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times — of offering formal U.S. security guarantees to Saudi Arabia in return for diplomatic normalization with Israel, I called this lunatic idea “foolishness on top of foolishness.”

“America’s implicit security guarantees of the Saudi monarchy,” I wrote, “have brought us little but grief for 40 years.”

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Mark Antonio Wright

Mark Antonio Wright is the executive editor of National Review.

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In July, when the Biden White House floated the idea — via a gauzy Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times — of offering formal U.S. security guarantees to Saudi Arabia in return for diplomatic normalization with Israel, I called this lunatic idea “foolishness on top of foolishness.”

“America’s implicit security guarantees of the Saudi monarchy,” I wrote, “have brought us little but grief for 40 years.”