- I spent several hours in Saudi Arabia's national museum and cultural center while visiting Riyadh in January 2020.
- It's full of evidence of the kingdom's long, fraternal relationship with the US, which started a year after the formation of Saudi Arabia in 1932.
- A desk gifted to King Abdulaziz by President Harry Truman, and a letter from a US magnate praising the king to President Franklin D. Roosevelt took pride of place in one section.
- It's clear from the museum that Saudi Arabia is proud of its consistent amity with the US despite areas of conflict in the US.
- Congress repeatedly tried to pressure President Donald Trump to distance the US from Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a terrorist attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola by a Saudi service member, and the war in Yemen.
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The US is Saudi Arabia's closest western ally. Their relationship has weathered several storms, from the September 11 attacks, to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, to a deadly terrorist attack at a US Navy air station last year.
All this was made clear to me when I visited the kingdom's National Museum in central Riyadh last month. I was struck by abundance of US paraphernalia there, which suggested to me that Saudi Arabia deeply cherishes its relationship so much that it borders on reverence.
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