>You're here citing Kissinger as a venerable authority rather than an amoral war criminal, case in point.

Citing Kissinger does not mean endorsing him.

>KSA exports the same toxic religious fundamentalism...

Iranian-supported fundamentalism controls 4 ME captials, KSA controls only 1 capital. Iran is a explicitly anti-American revisionist power with a serious nuclear program while KSA isn't.

Unsurprisingly, I focus on the bigger more toxic power (that wasn't always the case - two decades ago KSA was the bigger issue). Isn't that more like realpolitiks rather than talking about what would some fictional KSA have done?