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 don’t think it is. I know it will seem old-fashioned. It has to do with a great nation’s 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 didn’t want to cancel lucrative arms deals with the Saudi government. “I don’t 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 don’t want to hurt jobs. I don’t 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 it’s 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 didn’t quite sit with our vision of ourselves. And American presidents, as representatives of a nation with a certain moral stature, didn’t 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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—It was startling. We talk like this now? In public?-—
You mean telling the truth instead of political dissembling? yeah.
—We used to play it a little more high-minded.——
You mean LIE to the public, Peggy?
Love how the clown media always is very careful to cover up his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and his carrier as a terrorist mouthpiece.
Here a clue for you Clown media, NO ONE CARES.
Hasn’t Peggy reached her sell-by date yet? She’s so sour that even spoiled milk seems sweet by comparison.
“...the weirdness of the Trump presidency never seems to let up....”
They try to paint Trump as weird. THE democrats are the freaks.
Sick, twisted freaks.
Info coming up in post to ‘all’.
Stuff it, Margaret. (Extreme Bushie).
We who!?
I am extremely proud of our ability to produce some, if not most, of the world's finest armaments.
USA! USA! USA!
And the petty demagoguery of the hapless NeverTrumpers doesn't either.
Ni valor de pedo de puta.
Trump’s critics are the REAL freaks!
Demented and corrupt.
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Violent Pro-Abortion Rally Ends With Abortion Activists Throwing Firebombs at Church
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697973/posts
Some women protested topless, throwing stones and flaming objects at Our Lady Auxiliadora church... [snip]
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Rosie O’Donnell Calls For Military Takeover In U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697968/posts
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Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked
The Washington Times
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3697911/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697300/posts
Frontpage Magazine:
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
“We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,” Khashoggi reminisced about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...
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Latest Saudi controversy:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is against Wahhabism aka radical Islam. That’s the key point to understand.
Don’t forget that bin Laden tried to drive the Saudis into becoming a terror state. They fought him to the death on that.
Quick History lesson:
The Saudis’ ancestors were allies of the UK. They gained power through denouncing the earlier dynasty as too westernized. And the UK fell for their tricks despite the strident objections of Lawrence of Arabia [the most brilliant Middle East geopolitical strategist of his day].
Now the Saudis are seeking to be modern [it took us a long time to get them there] and Rubio is falling for the new anti-western movement which could place ISIS on the Saudi throne or something similar.
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Blackburn backlash shocks Mt. Juliet restaurant owner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697722/posts
...he rented the event room at his Mt. Juliet business to U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Marsha Blackburn on Saturday. Courtney said he’s been called a Nazi, an abuser, had his life threatened and said his staff has been verbally attacked. [snip]
Anti-GOP Violence Escalates, Top Democrats Egg On the Goons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697868/posts
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Nancy Pelosi: There Will Be ‘Collateral Damage’ to Those Who Disagree with Us
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3697835/posts
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Backlash
Nancy Pelosi shouted out of a restaurant - by Cuban Americans in Miami!!! [VIDEO]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697856/posts
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FoxNews
Anti-Trump and anti-GOP mobs act like thugs, while Trump-hating media spare them criticism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3697971/posts
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Beto O’Rourke says he still supports impeaching Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3697928/posts
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What kind of creepy family did Kashoggi belong to?
Kashoggi’s family into some nasty organized crime:
“Add on that Adnon khasoggi, jamals uncle is a major smuggler smuggling everything from drugs to weapons to humans especially kids under 16 in harms way...” — rodguy911
Was Khashoggi a spy FOR the Saudis?
Is the Saudi Prince being framed?
Here is rodguy911’s research:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3697300/posts?page=85#85
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[Khashoggi might have preferred bin Laden, but ...]
ISIS RETURNS: Terrorists take 700 hostage; Moscow issues warning...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697696/posts
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1033295/isis-news-putin-news-russia-war-Syria
[Group vows to execute 10 a day]
[Maybe they could apply to be reporters for the Washington Post?]
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Their money worthless, Venezuela’s desperate flee by foot...
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/business/article220212785.html
[Always the end game for thug-o-crat leftists]
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Baltimore puts 230 desk officers on streets as murders mount...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/baltimore-puts-230-desk-officers-streets-murders-mount-131536561.html
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BEAST: Dear God, Hillary. Please, Just Go...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-god-hillary-clinton-please-just-go-3
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More at Digging Deep
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?q=1&;page=2901
Really?
Don't worry, because Maxine has the market cornered on “weirdness”...which in HER case is synonymous with ‘stupidness’
Who?
FRD and Truman? Name Joseph Stalin mean anything to you Peggy?
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. Ever taken a close look at the regimes we supporting in African, SE Asia and Latin America?
The ONE time we tried is “Global Politics by faux moral code notion, the President was Jimmy Carter who completely destroyed the US standing in the world and created the mess in Iran and Central America we still trying to fix today.
So NEWS FLASH Peggy, your world view is naive and ignorant. It not historical, it pure ignorant wishful thinking on your part.
The USA has always had to deal with people less then perfect (example the Saudis or Stalin) to protect US National interests from worse people (Iran or Hitler)
At your age Peggy, the emotional hysteria and infantile ignorance expressed in this article is simply inexcusable.
Thank you for posting Peggy Noonan. She’s just as crazy as she has been for years, now.
Not the least bit practical or sane.
“...a nation with a certain moral statur...”
Ask the friggin’ democrats about that!!!!!!!
This is the GOP “Neocon” wing, isn’t it?
I still have yet to figure it out, but I think the “Neocons” think that America runs around the world “Projecting Power” everywhere, with its shorts hanging down around the ankles, takin’ it from the same Global Interests.
I suspect that these Global Interests are the “Neocon’s” financial interests.
So, they’re the militant wing of the Cheap Labor Express.
Ol’ sour-puss Noonan is one of them.
Bloviating Peggy. What a windy bore she is and always has been.
I don’t care that some Saudi who was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood got offed in Turkey. That’s the bottom line. No matter how much the MSM tries to gin up some big controversy out of it, I still do not care.
Seems likely only if you put your trust in Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Seems to me if Egypt wanted this guy dead they would have done it very differently.
Turkey is sucking up to Russia. Iran and Russia are good buddies. The US, via the Saudis are the only think that stand in the way for Iran being the dominate regional power.
The propaganda ploy here is so ham handed and obvious the ONLY people too stupid to see it are the scum suckers in the US Clown media.
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