The simplest explanation is the correct one. The administration of George W. Bush was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Saudi royal family.
Rand Paul has been making a lot of noise about a balanced budget and opposing the tax cut this week.
The fact that our nation is 20 trillion dollars in debt and dependent on financial resources from Gulf Arab nations like Saudi Arabia should remind us of the need to get our financial house in order.
The lack of fiscal responsibility is a big factor in all the Saudi friendly policy coming out of Washington DC.
The Bush family and Obama too. You can tell when Trump one how much the Saudis were worried that for the first time in a generation there was a President that they didn’t own by looking at how much butt kissing they did to him when he went to Saudi Arabia. I don’t recall the parades and medals and all that for any prior President in recent history, only Trump. The don’t own him and can’t buy him, and that’s new territory for them.