When I asked members of the DC-based foreign policy community what was driving this, they described an establishment whose preexisting worldview — a natural preference for the status quo and the familiar, a mythology of welcomed American hegemony — naturally aligns with Saudi Arabia's. But they also pointed to ways in which Gulf money, in recent years, has come to distort Washington's conversations about the Middle East. (All asked to speak anonymously, given the subject's sensitivity.)
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