Unless you live in a hole, you’ve seen the famous Obama bow to the Saudi king at the G20 summit last week. I can understand why certain people would have a problem with this. These are the same folks who think Obama hates America because he acknowledged that the country made a few missteps over the past eight years, although they will give themselves coronaries if they keep taking things out of context less than 100 days into the new administration. Jon Stewart, of course, gets it exactly right.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Obama meant to show subservience to King Abdullah. Don’t you think it would be more effective to do this? Or this? I think that the relationship between America and Saudi Arabia is deeply problematic, and I certainly hope that Obama will consider extricating America’s nozzle prong from Saudi’s black gold. His support of a renewable energy platform indicates that he’s at least going to start the process.
But I’m willing to concede that bowing to assholes is never good form.
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