Withdraw U.S. Troops from Saudi Arabia and the UAE ASAP

Withdrawing all U.S. forces from these countries would be a welcome and overdue move.

Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey, announced that he is introducing legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia and the UAE in response to the report of the OPEC+ oil production cut:

This is a hostile act by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, designed to hurt the United States and our allies and to help Russia, despite President Biden's overtures. I'm introducing legislation with @RepCasten to withdraw our troops from both countries.

Withdrawing all U.S. forces from these countries would be a welcome and overdue move, and I commend Reps. Malinowski and Casten for proposing this measure. It is too bad that it has taken this long for members of Congress to take this step when the Saudi and Emirati governments have been going out of their way to oppose U.S. diplomacy and undercut U.S. interests for years, but I’ll take it. At least there is finally an effort underway to extract a price from these unreliable and reckless clients. The Biden administration has been wrong to indulge these governments with additional weapons sales and troop deployments. Congress should vote to withdraw the troops as soon as possible and dare Biden to block it.