evince (10-13-2018), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2018), Rune (10-15-2018), signalmankenneth (10-12-2018), SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
You suck.
Vote these assholes out of the fucking universe
You people are sickening.
So, what are you going to do, Trump? What are you going to do???????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????
evince (10-13-2018), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2018), Rune (10-15-2018), signalmankenneth (10-12-2018), SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
RINO is the term for that rare Republican who puts country above party.
Right wing = lie, lie, and lie some more.
"When I am president I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to play golf" Donald J. Trump, world class snake oil salesman and compulsive golfer August 2016
The definition of "racist" as "anyone who is white" is itself racist.
Originally Posted by Colin Powell
evince (10-15-2018), Guno צְבִי (10-15-2018), Rune (10-15-2018), signalmankenneth (10-12-2018), SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
Rune (10-15-2018)
Lightbringer (10-10-2018), Minister of Truth (10-12-2018), SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
Thoughts and prayers
Rune (10-15-2018)
Odd this hasn't generated more controversy. Isn't Saudi Arabia one of our best buds?
"2Timothy 3 "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away"
cancel2 2022 (10-12-2018)
Rune (10-13-2018)
For Trump it's always about the deal -how much money.
But he also mentioned there are plenty of other sellers out there -
Russia in particular who'd love more military influence KSA. That also separates KSA away from military cordination
For Buddha's sake Obama just did the same thing to Eqypt with his sanctions on the Sisi coup;
where he suspended arms sales that Russia quickly filled and now has influence w/ KSA.
There should be some international investigation, since many nations are outraged
and then make a measured response.. KSA is too important to goof around with
Jack (10-12-2018)
FDR and Saudi Arabia: Forging a Special Relationship
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10...781137025258_6
The origins of the “special relationship” between the United States and Saudi Arabia are rooted in the politics of World War II, driven by America’s growing demands for oil. Roosevelt understood that the war offered an opportunity for the emergence of new political relationships in the Middle East designed to challenge European influence and foster the new economic and political order he envisioned. He admitted to being “greatly interested” in developments in Saudi Arabia and he aimed to build a strategic partnership, a kind of Good Neighbor Policy for the Middle East, with the Saudi king as one of its cornerstones. The Americans saw him as the most important figure in the Middle East, not only due to his kingdom’s oil wealth and its importance to postwar plans, but also because of Ibn Saud’s political and religious standing with the Arabs throughout the region.
SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
Bigdog (10-13-2018)
The U.S.-Saudi Arabia alliance, which survived the oil embargo in 1973 and the attacks on September 11, 2001, in which fifteen of the nineteen passenger jet hijackers were Saudi citizens, has passed through some recent strains.
A new generation of Saudi leaders, adjusting to what it had seen as a resurgent Iran and a retreating United States, chafed at President Barack Obama while pursuing an aggressive military posture in the region.
The Obama administration, for its part, charged that Saudi Arabia had exacerbated regional conflicts and undermined U.S. interests while under the protection of the U.S. security umbrella.
President Donald J. Trump, by contrast, has made Saudi Arabia the first foreign country he will visit since taking office and has pledged to take an aggressive posture toward Iranian expansionism.
The United States, first through its oil industry and then via government contacts, established a relationship with Saudi Arabia's founder, King Abdulaziz, and his successors that evolved into a close alliance despite a stark clash in values. U.S. businesses have been involved in Saudi Arabia's oil industry since 1933, when Standard Oil of California (now Chevron) won a concession to explore in eastern Saudi Arabia, discovering oil in 1938.
U.S. companies were preferred to European drillers operating in Iraq and Iran because Saudi Arabia's founder was wary of colonial powers that controlled much of the region at the time.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-saudi-relations
Rune (10-15-2018)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
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SouthernUnkleRitchie (10-13-2018)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
Bigdog (10-13-2018), cancel2 2022 (10-12-2018)
I think it would be interesting to get our resident KSA expert's take on this development.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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