The Donald Trump administration is dusting off an influential Cold War-era foreign policy playbook to help justify its support for Riyadh.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal this week before the Senate voted to advance a bill that would end US support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited a famed 1979 essay to explain why the Trump team is sticking by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
