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Aura7541 said:
VGPolyglot said:

The United States was more than aware of the situation. They were involved directly, like in the 1990s in the Gulf War when the Saudis gave them massive amounts of money in order to do their bidding. They are also selling weapons to the Saudis so they can attack the rebels in Yemen. They also gave Saudi Arabia hundreds of millions of dollars of aid in the 1970s.

This proves the guilty act, but not necessarily the guilty mind. Appeasing Saudi Arabia does not necessarily mean endorsing Wahhabism. The US wanted to maintain a "good" relationship with Saudi Arabia for economical reasons and prevent a dictator from going even more wild. However, in the US's naiveté, it has led to the growth of Wahhabism. Overall, it's more of the US being very oblivious to the long-term repurcussions than the US having the actual intent of promoting Islamization. We see the same pattern with Afghanistan and Iraq.

There's also the possible scenario where the US was aware of the situation, but didn't believe that widespread Islamization would occur. So again, naiveté.

Well, they should know by now, yet they're still close allies with Saudi Arabia.