This pact could trigger a new Cold War more complex and dangerous than any confrontation we’ve ever seen.
AdvertisementThis rationale would implode if Biden signed a mutual defense pact with one of the least democratic countries in the world . U.S. policy would be derided as not only hypocritical but puzzling, and China and Russia would score major propaganda victories.
To the argument that the United States has never signed a mutual defense pact with a nondemocratic country, some administration officials point to the 1953 treaty that President Dwight Eisenhower signed with South Korea, which at the time was a military dictatorship. But this comparison holds no water. American troops had just finished fighting a three-year war in Korea; Eisenhower signed the pact as assurance that the troops would return if North Korea broke the armistice and attacked again. And the Cold War was on: The global battle pitted the capitalist West against the Communist East; the U.S. backed many authoritarian governments in the name of anti-Communism.
Despite all this, Friedman finds the prospect of a Saudi deal intriguing, but only if some demands are placed on Israel—not just resumption of talks with Palestinians, as the Saudis have mentioned, but a freeze on settlements and a promise never to annex more territory. Friedman because he fears that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its move to scuttle judicial review pose grave threats to Israeli democracy. He wants to pose this challenge to the right-wingers: You can have more territory
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