Steve Forbes Warns Biden’s Saudi Arabia Bashing Is A “Big Mistake”

An angry President Biden has vowed that he will be unveiling measures to punish Saudi Arabia—perhaps OPEC, too—for cutting back oil production. Even worse from the White House’s point of view is the fact that the Saudi’s didn’t accede to Biden’s request to postpone the announcement until after our midterm elections.

Even before the OPEC flap, U.S.-Saudi relations were at an all-time low, largely because of the 2018 killing of exiled Saudi Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly at the orders of the virtual ruler of the kingdom.

But this segment of What’s Ahead argues that, given the stakes in the Middle East, ire over this outrage must not rupture our relations with this critical country.

In the real world allies are not always ideal, as exemplified by our WWII alliance with the Soviet Union to defeat and destroy Nazi Germany. The choice between Iran and Saudi Arabia is no choice at all. The murderous mullahs ruling Iran have killed or caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of Americans, and are hell-bent on getting the bomb.

The Biden Administration must recognize who our true enemies are.

As for OPEC, Biden should stop his administration’s attacks on the oil and gas industry and let the U.S. become energy independent—which it was before he took office.