*** Current administration wants to facilitate functioning nation-state, free of puppetmasters. Does that make sense? ***
No, it makes no sense, especially if we want to send Saudi “troops” to Syria.
In 2013, KSA sent prisoners who were slated for beheading to Syria to fight Assad. In exchange for commutation of their sentences, and $$$, Murderers, Rapists, and Drug Smugglers took the Saudi deal.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1852629?__twitter_impression=true
That was 5 years ago. There is a new leadership in SA. There is a new alliance w/Trump.
I see no contradiction between “Current administration wants to facilitate functioning nation-state, free of puppetmasters” (today) and what happened 5 years in the past under different leaders on all sides.
I don’t necessarily take what Syrians (of all factions) post on Twitter as *truth*, either. Nor am I willing to take USA Today reporting at face value, especially from 5 years ago when zer0 had a stranglehold on all information.
“In exchange for commutation of their sentences, and $$$, Murderers, Rapists, and Drug Smugglers...”
Wasn’t that the plot for Dirty Dozen?