Posted on 06/20/2016 4:41:43 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON -- Frustrated over a stall in an arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Obama once questioned the necessity of maintaining Israel's qualitative military edge in the region, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.
Panetta was confirming a report from Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who attributed the claim to him in an article on Obama's foreign policy doctrine published last March.
The former Pentagon chief said the White House, at the time, was deeply concerned that Israel was preparing to unilaterally strike Iran. Simultaneously, the administration was also hoping to complete with Riyadh a significant sale of fighter jets.
According to US law, the Defense Department must ensure that weapons sales to Mideast nations must comport with an American guarantee of Israel's qualitative military edge (QME) in the region.
"We were going through a lot of contortions in order to deal with this issue, to develop the kind of technical responses that you have to develop in order to make sure that you protect Israel's qualitative edge," Panetta told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy at an event on Monday.
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Hussein is lucky that Isreal is not targeting him...
Since I want to be on the lists;
The guy’s middle name is Husein, or something like that.
WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
I’d suggest yhat Hussein stay out of the Levant....
I pray the God (the real one) delivers the Muslim murderers into the hands of the IDF. May Israel be victorious.
Obama will choke back tears....
It would be too funny should Karma come around in the next decade....
Iran couldn’t have a better U.S. president than Obama. What’s Hillary say about this foreign policy?
This should be a big wedge-issue in this election.
WTF?
Who but a Muslim cares if Iran was bombed?
Because you big dummie their enemies would over power them.
yeah his real motivation is showing enough that even liberals will see it..
Winner of Nobel Peace Prize Frustrated by Inability to Sell Bombs
Because they’re outnumbered a thousand to one?
I’d put some good money on a bet that Obozo does not know that in 1948 Israel was invaded by every country sharing a border with it and two Arab countries not sharing a border.
Even a jack wad like bammy can “count rifles.” He knows Israel is outnumbered. If it wasn’t for that qualitative edge they would have been wiped out long ago. Or at least sometime in 2009...
Anger is a good sign from King clown - it means he’s NOT getting what he wants
It’s obvious Obama isn’t afraid of God or an eternity spent in the bowels of the Lake of Fire with his “father”.
Things Obama Hates:
America,
Israel,
Christianity,
U.S. Constitution,
Capitalism,
Judaism,
etc.
-——the administration was also hoping to complete with Riyadh a significant sale of fighter jets.-——
Why do I sense a type of Iran / Contra thing going on here except Obama is helping the bad guys....
Or a payoff to Obama...
I thought Obama hates the military... Well just ours...
Nothing would surprise me... Anymore with these traitors...
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