US-Saudi

A franchise deal with the Al Safwa Food Group includes plans to open 32 DQs throughout Saudi Arabia by 2015, according to the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council.

Anneli Rufus: World's Biggest DQ Opens Anneli Rufus 2011

Michael Moore and others figured US-Saudi ties were accompanied by a spooky soundtrack.

Matthew Yglesias » The War on Chas Freeman 2009

A franchise deal with the Al Safwa Food Group includes plans to open 32 DQs throughout Saudi Arabia by 2015, according to the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council.

Anneli Rufus: World's Biggest DQ Opens Anneli Rufus 2011

Increased US-Saudi attacks and military aid are part of the effort - up from $4.6 million in FY 2006 to $67 million in FY 2009, and according to the Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed senior Pentagon official, to as much as $190 million in FY 2010.

Printing: Obama's War on Yemen 2010

Increased US-Saudi attacks and military aid are part of the effort - up from $4.6 million in FY 2006 to $67 million in FY 2009, and according to the Wall Street Journal, citing an unnamed senior Pentagon official, to as much as $190 million in FY 2010.

Obama's War on Yemen 2010

But that said, I believe that the administration is still not as serious as it should be or could be in giving the US-Saudi relationship the attention and respect it deserves -- inside Washington, DC.

Steve Clemons: US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium 2009

On Monday, 27 April, I will be co-chairing a major national policy forum on US-Saudi economic and strategic perspectives on the Middle East and global economic and security system.

Steve Clemons: US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium 2009

All of this is happening while we are holding this US-Saudi policy forum in Washington, DC.

Steve Clemons: US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium 2009

Because of cultural dissimilarities and almost a purposeful "remoteness" that has become institutionalized in the US-Saudi relationship, except when behind closed doors -- or perhaps in the privacy of the oval office or big estates here or there, or in Riyadh -- the US-Saudi relationship remains "overly exotic" -- and is not acted out in public view to the degree it should be.

Steve Clemons: US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium 2009

Whether many Americans want to acknowledge it or not, the fact is that the US-Saudi relationship is vital to America's geostrategic and geoeconomic interests today -- and like all diplomatic frameworks between key geostrategic players, this relationship as seen from both the American and the Saudi sides has warts and shortcomings.

Steve Clemons: US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium 2009