Saudi Arabia’s PGA Golf Merger Is Proof Its Monarchy Is Untouchable
It's hard to imagine any other government getting away with the crimes that Saudi Arabia's monarchy has. And yet the Saudi-backed LIV Golf's merger with the PGA Tour shows the Gulf nation continues to be treated as anything but a pariah in the United States.
Paul Casey on day three of the LIV Golf Invitational on October 16, 2022 in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia. (Chris Trotman / LIV Golf via Getty Images)
Is there anything the Saudi Arabian government can’t get away with?
Over the last few years, the Saudi government has dismembered a Washington Post columnist and US resident, waged a gruesome war on a neighboring country facilitated by multiple US administrations, cozied up openly with Washington’s chief global rivals at its expense, and repeatedly humiliated the current US president, theoretically the most powerful single human being in the world — all while revelations slowly dripped out showing that the Saudi government was directly complicit in the September 11 attacks.
In spite of it all, the US government still has friendly ties with the brutal Saudi monarchy and continues to enable its deadly blockade of Yemen that is starving that country’s people. In fact, President Joe Biden stepped in to grant the Saudi crown prince legal immunity over assassinating an American columnist, and he just dispatched the top US diplomat to Saudi Arabia for an exceedingly friendly visit, part of the Biden administration’s determination to normalize relations between the Gulf state monarchy and Israel.
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