{"id":767282,"date":"2022-08-03T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=251218"},"modified":"2022-08-03T05:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:57:00","slug":"us-saudi-relationship-beyond-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/03\/us-saudi-relationship-beyond-the-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Saudi Relationship: Beyond the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An adage favored by Claud Cockburn as well as Otto von Bismarck advises &#8220;Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.&#8221; Indeed, it should be a clear tenet of political analysis that stated goals are frequently not actual goals. US war planners used rhetorical concerns over non-existent Iraq WMDs as a pretext  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/03\/us-saudi-relationship-beyond-the-obvious\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/03\/us-saudi-relationship-beyond-the-obvious\/\">US-Saudi Relationship: Beyond the Obvious<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/03\/us-saudi-relationship-beyond-the-obvious\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An adage favored by Claud Cockburn as well as Otto von Bismarck advises &#8220;Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.&#8221; Indeed, it should be a clear tenet of political analysis that stated goals are frequently not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767606,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767282\/revisions\/767606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}