Posted on 05/28/2016 4:22:59 AM PDT by HomerBohn
President Trump has his work cut out for him. He needs an administration that would contain a thoughtful Conservative secretary of state. Hillary, Madeline, 'Colon' Powell and the current asshat Kerry are tragic examples of anti-Conservative adminstrations.
Three women and an affirmative action hire.
splains a lot.
I’d love to blame this on Obama, but this sh!t has been going on for decades.
That is BS, pure drivel
There is a common enemy of the GCC nations and Turkey is Iran
You are quite foolish to equate Arab and Jihadist
while it is true that most all Jihadist are Arab, it is not true that most all Arabs are Jihadist
Readjust your turban and think about what you posted.
You betcha, but Fruitcake has understood how this inane policies fit his agenda to continue anything that adds to his goal to sink this nation.
Remember -- it was the Obama Administration that drew the "line in the sand" in Syria ... and then backed down.
You are just plain ignorant of the reality
There is something to this my friends. They can get the weapons from our allies as well as our adversaries. I say create a ‘safe zone’ as Trump promised. It will be for Christians and Kurds. Arm them. Then pull out and drill for all the oil in our own country. We can be the supplier to the world.
The safe zone will be the Persian Gulf. The enemy is Iran
The GCC nations are Iranian enemies and our friends.
Disregarding the cherry-picked data, Turkey (NATO ally), Saudi Arabia, and the UAE can purchase arms from anyone in the world. It is in our national interests to sell them our weapons rather than have them buy them from the Russians, Chinese, France, etc.
There are plenty of advantages that accrue to us when they purchase weapons from us. They include jobs, lower unit cost for our military, and leverage over the buyers in the form of repair parts, training, etc. And it is worth remembering that our export weaponry does not have the same avionics and other technology that is used by our military.
There are plenty of Congressional restrictions on what can and cannot be exported. "This sh't" is good for our strategic national interests. We are competing against the rest of the world. The idea that we should unilaterally stop selling weapons is nonsense.
The leftist article is full of misinformation and distortion. It is crap.
Council on Foreign Relations. Neocons and CFR stooges drive this crap. They are pure evil. They make billions off wars and the suffering of millions.
Welcome to the wrong side of WWIII.
This link http://books.sipri.org/product_info?c_product_id=495# says the largest buyers 2010-2014 are
1. South Korea
2. UAE
3. Australia
That will probably change a lot once F-35 deliveries start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_procurement#Planned_purchases
A few points to consider -
While the US might have a bigger defense budget than the next 7 countries - COMBINED - the disparity won’t seem as much if you consider what the US spends as a percentage of GDP. The US spends about 4% of GDP on military. Lots of socialized countries or countries in NATO might spend 1 to 1.5% of their GDP on the military. And the US spending in the 1950’s to early 1990’s tended to be around 6% of GDP - and we have lowered it significantly. (Pre-WWII - we were around 3% of GDP.)
When we sell arms to other countries - we have several goals including making the country more of an ally, helping our own vendors (why not let Boeing make money instead of a French or Swedish country?) - and with the sale of high tech equipment, we can withhold parts support if the country turns way from the US. (The Iranian F-14’s aren’t worth much since they can’t get spare parts...) Face it - some of the countries mentioned will still buy weaponry - the question is whether or not it might be beneficial to be involved in the sales, or sitting on the sidelines, with no possibility of being able to exercise influence. (Of course - influence goes both ways, and we might have to do things that we shouldn’t to ‘make the sale’.)
The Saudi Arabian leaders have been ‘riding the tiger’ and now they don’t know how to get off without the tiger eating them. For many decades, the rich leaders allowed the Wahhabi ‘cult’ to dominate - and the Wahhabi cult is very ‘fundamental’ - more “Islamist” vs. modern Islam. This led to a populace that is more ready to ‘revolt’ than ever before. The leaders are trying to figure out how to back down from Wahhabism...for a more main-stream and less aggressive form of Islam (if one can ever exist.) Are we better off trying to work with leaders and hope that things can be fixed - or would it be better if the nation went the way of Iran?
And you are epitome of poor tasteful comments.
You, though, are the new reality.
the truth is not acceptable by those drowned in dogmatic assertion
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? Just wondering because your comments make no sense whatsoever.
Perhaps you’re autistic or suffering from some mental problem, but it’s clear that you may be using a computer in an asylum.
I post truth to counter your lies
Why not expound on them a bit more. Your convoluted replies show that you’re a dunce incapable of proper responses. They’re not even cryptic nor do they demonstrate a modicum of intellect.
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