How do liberals explain their president claiming to support women's and LGBT rights while being allied to the Gulf Arab states?
They're immune to cognitive dissonance?
The U.S. has no choice because of all the oil they have.
Not as cheap to dig up. Besides, having oil reserves domestically is a good strategic move in the off chance that overseas reserves become forcibly unavailable, so we don't want to deplete them if we don't have to. Plus, environmental concerns.
