“However, supporting the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against what the U.S. views as Iranian expansionism takes priority over battling AQAP and even stabilizing Yemen,” Horton said."
Said the guy from the neocon activist group.
Now we know part of the quid pro quo was with the Saudis and AE in the Seychelles.
Can you fucking IMAGINE if Obama had done something like this? Just take a moment to completely explode your head. I’ll wait right here.
The earliest documented instance was spring 2016 (six months before the election and nine before the inauguration). So Obama’s partially on the hook here. However, I’m not sure of the frequency or magnitude of he deals cut by Obama’s team versus trump’s. It has certainly continued for a good long time under putin’s apprentice
Edit- corrected date of earliest deal
This seems relevant given that 9/11 “reminder” that the Saudis just sent the Canadians a few days ago.
This is really outrageous. Must be Backwards Day, but these days, what day isn’t?
I’m still smarting at the Rethugs pointing their nubby little fingers at all of us Dems for being unpatriotic when we wouldn’t go along with the Big Lie that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, and that’s why we had to go to war and demand regime change in a country that had nothing to do with shit… To add insult to injury, we were going to hunt down Al-Qaida and Osama Bin Laden to the ends of the earth, (dead or alive) and kill every single one of them in your typical Bush league way.
And then…Squirrel!!
We took our eyes off the ball in Afghanistan, and it took Barack Obama to take care of business. How many years were wasted and how many people died unnecessarily during that period. What a shitty ass-backwards way to conduct our foreign affairs. This administration has no concept of foreign policy or how to deal with our adversaries. None whatsoever.
Why you can’t have health care.
Think of this, conservatives, your leader have armed the Mooselims better than you.
Shouldn’t be long now.
From Wikipedia:
The PRNCE bomb is an air-delivered cash infusion vehicle, with the PRNCE-18 being the most recent incarnation. It is released from a dispenser on the underside of an aircraft, falling rapidly until it reaches a predetermined altitude and opens a parachute to slow its descent. When the PRNCE passes over a high-priority target, it flashes a strobe light and emits a trail of glitter until it reaches the ground. The PRNCE system is capable of delivering USD 68 million in cash to a single target. A modified Rockwell B-1 Lancer can mount 4 PRNCE-18 systems simultaneously, for a total delivery capacity of 1.0625 fucktons of war cash per strike.
It turns out Trump is a real aficionado of military hardware.
Or you could just go to Arlington National Cemetery and piss on the grave of the dead before heading up to the site of the 9-11 memorial to take a big dump.
Our “best army on the planet” apparently hasn’t actually won anything since the 1940’s. Maybe we should just pack up come home. All we need are subs and crypto. The rest of them can parade at sporting events or have bake sales or something.
Why aren’t all the Taliban dead? It’s 17 years later. Time to shut it down along with the GOP.
New directions, anyone?
Yup. Maybe Canada should slap a 1000% tariff on Trump vodka citing national security reasons.
Never forget the 1983 attack on the marine barracks in Lebanon; always forget 9/11. There is no Saudi agenda
Yes. This is how Betrayus’s “surge” worked. It wouldn’t have otherwise…
Yes, Obama admin too - that’s right in the article! But the hypocrisy isn’t there for that admin, which is what my post is about. It was a Republican administration that whipped the country into a war frenzy after 9/11, invaded Iraq, and called Dems and liberals who opposed the invasion, and all the other evil shit they did, traitors.
That’s unfair. We absolutely crushed our foes in Grenada.
True, and the opponents of that invasion were right all along.
But don’t forget that some cowardly Democrats voted to support that invasion even though it was obvious that Bush was lying.
You’re right. And it should be to the party’s everlasting shame, though somehow I bet it’s not.
Anyway, I appreciate you making that point.
ETA: The Dems as a whole are full of faults. Most of these faults come under the category of being too much like the GOP.
Every time Americans insert ourselves into local or regional civil wars, we end up supporting the wrong motherfucking side.
Every. Single. Fucking. Time.
Abolish ICE? Right after we abolish the Pentagon.
How do you gauge “wrong” here?
Morally? I agree — but there are other measures used by people not like you and me.
The Saudi royal family’s.
FIFY
Realpolitik is a bitch.