Don't Call Biden's Saudi Trip a Failure: It Was Much Worse Than That

The inept president did active damage to U.S./Saudi relations at the worst possible moment

History is filled with moments in time whose events reverberate for decades to come. That is as true in world of oil and energy as it is in any other aspect of our lives.

An example: When news came to America that the Obama administration had successfully and quite illegally caused the killing of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi in October 2011, then-Secr…