The White House has been considering how to respond to the weekend's attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure, which both Washington and Riyadh are blaming on Iran.
This may ease the concerns of Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who had urged the White House not to escalate the situation and end up in an unwanted and costly conflict with the Iranians.On Thursday, for example, GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul suggested that long-time ally Saudi Arabia does not necessarily need American protection, given the amount the conservative kingdom spends on its armed forces.
"If you add Saudi Arabia's military budget to all their allies, all these Gulf sheikdoms that surround Saudi Arabia, they spend eight times more on military than Iran,""So they're more than capable—I think—of holding off Iran, retaliating against Iran," he added."That's the real question, why does it always have to be the U.S.
The weekend's attacks are spillover from the ongoing civil war in Yemen, in which the Saudi-led coalition is fighting against the Iranian-backed Houthis on behalf of the deposed government. The conflict has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in living memory, with more than
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