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Article: The terror exporters.(Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia)(Book Review)
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- February 9, 2004
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Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia, by Thomas W. Lippman (Westview, 354 pp., $27.50)
SAUDI ARABIA is an alien, even incomprehensible, land for Americans--closed, illiberal, and backward. And yet, so crucial has the United States been to the development of modern Saudi Arabia that in the country's flag, somewhere between the sword and the words "There is no god but God," there deserves to be stamped, "Made in the U.S.A."
In Inside the Mirage, Thomas Lippman recounts the history of the close relationship between the two countries, describing what has often been Riyadh's utter dependence on the United States. There is much ...