US paying high price for failure in addressing history of genocide: Saudi media

RIYADH - The United States is paying a high price for failing to squarely face and reflect on the history of the genocide against Native Americans, causing serious social problems yet to be settled, according to a recent editorial on the website of the Arab News, an English-language newspaper in Saudi Arabia.

Due to that failure, indigenous Americans "remain marginalized, systematically excluded from the political process and from economic opportunity," said the article published Thursday.

"From the history and legacy of slavery to Confederate monuments, hardly any call for an objective examination of the history of this country goes unchallenged," it said, adding that getting Americans to take a serious and objective look at their own history is currently "one of the most politically fraught tasks."

"Between the Iraq war, the financial crisis of 2008, America's failures during the Arab Spring, and the (Donald) Trump presidency," no other country still believes in Washington's "moral authority and leadership," said the article.

It is too convenient for the United States to condemn others, while the country itself refuses to look in the mirror, it said.