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Saudi Crown Prince Says U.S. Troops Should Stay in Syria
Time ^ | 30 Mar, 2018 | W.J. HENNIGAN

Posted on 04/02/2018 5:15:45 AM PDT by granada

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To: mac_truck

The powers that be do not want it to happen.


21 posted on 04/02/2018 7:25:19 AM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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Sorry but SA and other foreign agents have a huge say on where and how USA deploys military might.


22 posted on 04/02/2018 8:35:52 AM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: veracious

We’ve been the Saudis’ proxy army for the last 50 years.


23 posted on 04/02/2018 8:36:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: granada

Send your own friggin’ military there Salami, Salami, Baloney.


24 posted on 04/02/2018 10:45:15 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: granada
Like most Saudis, bin Salman seems to regard the US military as the private mercenary army of the Saudi Royal family. This may be news to him, but it isn't.

Here's a better suggestion for the House of Saud: raise your own military by conscripting your own hitherto worthless citizens, and do your own fighting. It isn't the job of the US or anyone else to resolve Medieval sectarian feuds between Shias and Sunnis.

25 posted on 04/02/2018 12:37:25 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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The Three Amigos

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

Column One: Portents of quagmires in Syria

26 posted on 04/02/2018 1:39:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Snipers Wanted”


27 posted on 04/02/2018 1:39:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: granada; SunkenCiv; nuconvert; Cronos; SJackson; odds; Eleutheria5
It is in the interest of Turkey, Russia, Syria and Iran, that US should leave. If that happens the Kurds will be let down again and Islamists of different brands will be happy, Iran will continue to have free access to Lebanon and more refugees will flow from Syria.

Although this https://peacelearner.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/edward-luttwak-give-war-a-chance1.pdf might be a good solution to the wars in the ME, it would not work as other countries would interfere so there is no easy solution.

MbS is a salesman https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/mohammed-bin-salman-iran-israel/557036/ that is on a mission to restore the absolute power of the Saudi monarchy. That is why he is fighting corruption by preventing others from taking bribes etc, and only allowing such business practice for his own family.

When he speaks about Wahhabism he asks; define Wahhabism? That is not easy for a random journalist, but it is true that there are different versions such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madkhalism and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_jihadism just to mention two.

28 posted on 04/03/2018 3:28:41 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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The monarchy started to lose absolute power during the Embargo, when the entire family tree got monstrously rich, and the monarchy had to make concessions to the religious leadership during the "Mahdi" seizure of the Great Mosque, otherwise the religious leaders wouldn't approve the use of force.

MbS is a statesman, he's already reclaimed absolute secular authority, and one reason for his large new planned city is to undermine the hold of the religious leadership.

Meanwhile Putin's a gangland leader out to pile up a huge fortune and generally **** with people, the Shiite-head is already an absolute theocrat and responsible for much of worldwide jihad, and Erdogan is the dictator of a dying republic, removing all but the trappings of the multiparty state, and like the other two piling up money in the process.

The Iranian mullahcracy should have been snuffed during the GWB administration, which also should have eschewed attempts to stabilized Iraq -- removing Iran's mullahs would have been a more effective route of that, but ultimately, who cares, provided we wipe out enemies of the US.

29 posted on 04/03/2018 3:59:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Agree.


30 posted on 04/03/2018 4:21:31 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: Alberta's Child

Hi.

“People like you are a big reason why Jeb Bush was less popular than a child molester among GOP primary voters.”

LOL. That was good.

5.56mm


31 posted on 04/03/2018 5:42:05 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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