Edited time: 16 Sep, 2019
16:16, RT News (Russia) https://www.rt.com/op-ed/468935-saudi-oil-field-drone-attack/
Finian Cunningham*
The devastating blitz on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry
has led to a flurry of accusations from US officials blaming Iran. The reason
for the finger-pointing is simple: Washington’s spectacular failure to protect
its Saudi ally.
The Trump administration needs to
scapegoat Iran for the latest military assault on Saudi Arabia because to
acknowledge that the Houthi rebels mounted such an audacious assault on the oil
kingdom’s heartland would be an admission of American inadequacy.
Saudi Arabia has spent billions of
dollars in recent years purchasing US Patriot missile defense systems and
supposedly cutting-edge radar technology from the Pentagon. If the Yemeni
rebels can fly combat drones up to 1,000 kilometers into Saudi territory and
knock out the linchpin production sites in the kingdom’s oil industry, then
that should be a matter of huge embarrassment for
