POTUS in Saudi Arabia

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anatta

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..a key allie in fighting terrorism ( al-Qaeda and Isis have been doing bombing campaigns in eastern SA.)

It's past time to treat them as the key regional power they are,and stop this "human rights" as driving the relationship

Forget the Iranian deal. It was a bad mistake, but the damage was to our Sunni allies.
It go so bad King Salman refused to go to DC..

Look for Trump and Salman to establish warm personal relations

another foreign policy reset by Trump..to bad we didn't get Russian, but SA is key in the MIddle East
 
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President Trump sets out Friday for Saudi Arabia on his first trip abroad since taking office. Ahead of the president's departure, his administration hoped to finalize a weapons sale to the Saudis totaling more than $100 billion.

If agreed to, the deal would be a boon for U.S. defense contractors. But critics say it also further entangles the U.S. with the war in Yemen.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/05/19/trump-saudi-arabia-weapons-deal
 
GazzaQueen said:
Mattis is saying The Don's orders will annihilate ISIS.
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there were a couple of things. Decentralization of decision making.
Under Obama many tactical ( not even strategic) decisions had to go back to the WH. (NSC)

That's gone..Mathis (Pentagon) is the final say, and he's delegated a lot directly to field commanders.

We are surrounding Raqqa much faster then we thought.

we are now also restricting "foreign fighters" to maybe a couple hundred per month going thru Turkey.
Prior was was a couple thousand
 
anatta said:
it's waay on the back burner.
We can encourage, but the SA/US relationship is much too important to restrict it by human rights
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It has not been restricted and should be kept on the burner it is. Not the waaaaay back burner. What kind of moral authority would we have?
 
anatta said:
there were a couple of things. Decentralization of decision making.
Under Obama many tactical ( not even strategic) decisions had to go back to the WH. (NSC)

That's gone..Mathis (Pentagon) is the final say, and he's delegated a lot directly to field commanders.

We are surrounding Raqqa much faster then we thought.

we are now also restricting "foreign fighters" to maybe a couple hundred per month going thru Turkey.
Prior was was a couple thousand
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The biggest morale problem were the ROE's. I understand they will be changing soon.
 
GazzaQueen said:
The biggest morale problem were the ROE's. I understand they will be changing soon.
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that i don't know..but you can't run a war's chain of command thru the WHNSC.

It's ridiculous, there is no way to recreate-refer to events on the ground in real time
 
anatta said:
that i don't know..but you can't run a war's chain of command thru the WHNSC.

It's ridiculous, there is no way to recreate-refer to events on the ground in real time
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Sitting on a mountain in Afghanistan waiting to hear from the WH if you can kill the enemy is not the way to win a war.
 
Yea, rumpf did brag that he would be great @ this military thing, so good, your head will spin.......

Maybe the next Napoleon or something...........??

Well, Napoleon was @ least in the military.. Perhaps he could of been great had he gone to prep school & avoided the draft because of a bad foot~one of them, rumpf can't remember which, but it's in the records somewhere~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Yaya said:
It has not been restricted and should be kept on the burner it is. Not the waaaaay back burner. What kind of moral authority would we have?
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who cares?
Nations operate in their best interest. period. the end. (realpolitik) and that includes joining an alliance like NATO-
we do it and Europe does it because it's beneficial. there are no advantages to running a Jimmy Carter foreign policy
 
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