09-17-2019, 03:46 AM
...to the very last American” said US defense secretary Robert Gates (who served as such under both Bush and Obama), in a moment of candor.
And now Cheeto stands, “locked and loaded”, waiting for royal blame-pinning and further instructions from the despotic monarchy in Riyadh.
“It’s not remotely normal for a president to talk publicly about that, to use language that sounds as if we aren’t making our own decisions about whether to use force — or trusting our own intelligence...” “And it’s completely unprecedented with a country that is not a treaty ally” said Heather Hurlburt, a national security official under President Bill Clinton who is now at New America, a Washington-based research organization...
...or as someone else said in 140 characters back in 2014:
Guess who? That was then. This is now:
(From an NYT article that’s worth a read).
And now Cheeto stands, “locked and loaded”, waiting for royal blame-pinning and further instructions from the despotic monarchy in Riyadh.
“It’s not remotely normal for a president to talk publicly about that, to use language that sounds as if we aren’t making our own decisions about whether to use force — or trusting our own intelligence...” “And it’s completely unprecedented with a country that is not a treaty ally” said Heather Hurlburt, a national security official under President Bill Clinton who is now at New America, a Washington-based research organization...
...or as someone else said in 140 characters back in 2014:
“Saudi Arabia should fight their own wars, which they won’t, or pay us an absolute fortune to protect them and their great wealth-$ trillion!”
Guess who? That was then. This is now:
(From an NYT article that’s worth a read).