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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I was talking to a colleague last night and his question posed to me was "Why weren't Saudi Arabia and Egypt (for example) or quite a few other middle east countries not included? Was it because he has financial interests in those countries?"

Originally Posted by Oberon

Because it's stupid?

Possibly......or...

The United States provided $6.5 billion in military assistance to Cairo between 2011 and 2015

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...-gave-to-egypt

The Saudi Arabian intervention in Yemen, which began in March 2015, has been aided and abetted from the beginning by the United States. U.S.-supplied military aircraft, refueled by U.S. tanker planes and directed by U.S. intelligence assets, are bombing Yemen almost daily with U.S.-made weapons.

https://warontherocks.com/2016/10/wh...bia-would-say/

A proper review would begin by acknowledging that the sale of U.S. arms to Saudi Arabia is big business. During the span of the Bush and Obama administrations, total U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia increased by nearly 97 percent. The U.S. has offered $115 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia during the Obama administration.

http://securityassistance.org/fact_s...saudi-arabia-0