{"id":1502504,"date":"2022-06-03T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502504"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T16:34:24","slug":"pariah-pilgrimage-biden-to-travel-to-saudi-arabia-to-beg-them-for-more-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pariah-pilgrimage-biden-to-travel-to-saudi-arabia-to-beg-them-for-more-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pariah Pilgrimage: Biden to Travel to Saudi Arabia to Beg Them for More Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpariah-pilgrimage-biden-to-travel-to-saudi-arabia-to-beg-them-for-more-oil%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502504&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Remember when Joe Biden ripped Donald Trump for doing nothing about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and promised to treat Saudi Arabia as a \u201cpariah state\u201d? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/02\/biden-saudi-arabia-oil-jamal-khashoggi\/?utm_source=feedly&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=wp_politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post certainly does<\/a>:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Since then, Biden and his party are getting clobbered by higher gas prices produced by the policies Biden put in place. Higher gas prices were an intended effect of those policies as a way to force Americans to make Biden\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/05\/24\/biden-on-record-gas-prices-its-an-incredible-transition-to-my-vision-for-a-green-future-n471529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incredible transition<\/a>\u201d away from fossil fuels, another pledge that Biden made on the campaign trail in 2020. Biden and his progressive allies want gasoline to be so expensive as to make alternative energy sources more economically competitive, even if they can\u2019t produce at high enough scale to meet energy demands.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that transition has turned out to be far more \u201cincredible\u201d than Biden expected. It\u2019s so \u201cincredible,\u201d in fact, that Biden will make a pilgrimage to the country that he wanted to make a \u201cpariah state\u201d to beg Mohammed bin Salman for more oil:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Biden is planning to visit Saudi Arabia later this month, a remarkable departure from his vow as a presidential candidate to treat the country as a \u201cpariah\u201d state, according to three administration officials who requested anonymity to share details of a trip not yet announced.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s trip to Riyadh follows broader efforts by his administration to build ties with the oil-rich nation to reduce the price of gas in the United States, which has skyrocketed in recent months. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia ruptured after the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and outspoken critic of the Saudi government. American intelligence has concluded that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto leader, ordered the killing of Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are,\u201d Biden said of Saudi Arabia during a Democratic debate in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He added there is \u201cvery little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn\u2019t even a case of \u201cmeet the new boss, same as the old boss.\u201d\u00a0Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia too, but that was in May 2017, before the murder of Khashoggi. That trip drew criticism anyway, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/global-opinions\/wp\/2017\/05\/21\/trumps-bizarre-and-un-american-visit-to-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an accusation from Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum<\/a> that it was a \u201cbizarre, unseemly, unethical and un-American\u201d choice for Trump\u2019s first overseas trip as president:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Before he moves on to Israel and then to Europe, before we are consumed by the next scandal and forget, here is a list, for the record, of just a few of the ways in which President Trump\u2019s trip to Saudi Arabia was bizarre, unseemly, unethical and un-American.<\/p>\n<p>It was a very strange choice for a first trip abroad. The past four American presidents, two Republicans and two Democrats, made their first trips to either Mexico and Canada, countries that are close trading partners, close allies, compatible democracies and of course neighbors. Trump chose, instead, to make his first presidential visit to an oligarchic kleptocracy which forces women to hide their faces and forbids them to travel without a male guardian\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was part of the \u201cpariah state\u201d argument from Biden, but mostly that came from (justified) media outrage over the brutal murder of Khashoggi. Biden had no trouble pandering to that outrage in 2019, when it was cheap and easy to do so. Now, however, Biden needs cheaper oil badly, and so does his political party, whose policies have transformed Saudi Arabia from a pariah state to a patronage state.<\/p>\n<p>So now Biden\u2019s paying the price rather than the Saudis. Why? Because Biden imposed policies that stripped the US of its strategic advantage in oil markets. His policies directly forced the US to court not just Saudi Arabia but truly vile regimes in Venezuela and Iran to produce the oil we need\u00a0<em>there<\/em> while Biden refuses to ease restrictions that would allow Americans to produce and refine it\u00a0<em>here<\/em> \u2014 where Americans would reap the full benefits of it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Biden will go on a pariah pilgrimage that will accentuate his own \u201cbizarre, unseemly, unethical and un-American\u201d energy policies. And who knows? By this time next year, Biden might even bend the knee in Caracas and Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2022\/06\/03\/sucking-murderers-biden-plans-visit-saudi-arabia-push-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s progressive pals at Common Dreams<\/a> are none too happy about his travel plans either. Their take is headlined \u201cSucking Up to Murderers,\u201d and quotes a Bernie Sanders advisor about the trip\u2019s implications:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to the Washington Post, for which Khashoggi worked as a columnist, Biden administration officials have come to view a presidential visit to Saudi Arabia \u201cas a necessary act of realpolitik to lower energy prices and inflation, despite a campaign promise to further isolate Riyadh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Duss, a foreign policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was among those criticizing the planned visit as egregiously hypocritical, flying directly in the face of Biden\u2019s rhetoric on the campaign trail and since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone can explain to me how this reflects the administration\u2019s previously stated commitment to \u2018a world in which human rights are protected, their defenders are celebrated, and those who commit human rights abuses are held accountable,\u2019 I\u2019d love to hear it,\u201d said Duss.<\/p>\n<p>Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org, tweeted that he \u201ccan\u2019t wait for the day when the world can stop sucking up to murderers simply because they have oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we should use our own oil to avoid that, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Joe Biden ripped Donald Trump for doing nothing about the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and promised to treat Saudi Arabia as a \u201cpariah state\u201d? The Washington Post certainly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}