Why Trump Can’t Retreat From The Middle East

If America doesn't need Saudi oil anymore, why is it still wooing crown princes, especially when American public opinion isn’t really on board? A Business Insider poll from September 2019 showed that, on the best of days, only one in five Americans viewed Saudi Arabia as a U.S. ally--even fresh off an attack on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, and even when that attack was widely believed to have been orchestrated by Iran.  Outside of the White House, there was little sympathy coming out of the United States. The most recent Gallup Poll…