Posted on 10/19/2018 5:51:14 AM PDT by reaganaut1
From Saudi arms sales to Horseface, the weirdness of the Trump presidency never seems to let up.
This may seem small, but I dont think it is. I know it will seem old-fashioned. It has to do with a great nations sense of its own stature on the world stage.
In the days after the apparent murder of the Saudi activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump was repeatedly pressed about the potential U.S. response if it turned out, as seemed likely, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing. Mr. Trump made it clear his first consideration was what he thought of as a practical one: He didnt want to cancel lucrative arms deals with the Saudi government. I dont like the concept of stopping an investment of $110 billion into the United States, he said. That number was inflated, but Saudi Arabia is the largest purchaser of U.S. weapons.
Mr. Trump told Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes: I dont want to hurt jobs. I dont want to lose an order like that. Later in the week he told reporters that Saudi Arabia is a tremendous purchaser of U.S. military equipment, and this must be factored in.
It was startling. We talk like this now? In public? I guess its supposed to look tough and bottom-line. But we declare now that U.S. foreign policy is quite so transactional?
We used to be ashamed, or at least embarrassed, to be seen as arms merchant to the world. It didnt quite sit with our vision of ourselves. And American presidents, as representatives of a nation with a certain moral stature, didnt use to declare that our world stands are heavily influenced by arms contracts.
We used to play it a little more high-minded.
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In dealing with Whabbists Prince MBS has simple choice: kill them or they will kill him. Just look at what happened to the late Anwar Sadat, who was a bit careless about such things.
Yep.
Buncha bad guys killed a WORSE guy. Big deal.
I calls it “one less bad guy”.
“Nother win” again.
Bingo.
We used to be ashamed, or at least embarrassed, to be seen as arms merchant to the world. It didnt quite sit with our vision of ourselves. And American presidents, as representatives of a nation with a certain moral stature, didnt use to declare that our world stands are heavily influenced by arms contracts.
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Exactly, Noonan is as Neo-Con as they come. Apparently, the U.S. can imperialize the globe as long as we don’t ACT like we’re imperializing the globe.
Peggy “Treacle” Noonan loves what she loves and hates what she hates. Her default to bile keeps the glass forever full, but paints her convictions with water colors, not oil.
She’ll run screaming down a different alley when the wind changes, trembling with running mascara.
Obama loving skunk.
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