Posted on 09/17/2016 6:45:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who oversees the U.S. foreign aid budget, opined on Friday that Israel made a mistake by signing a new $38 billion security agreement with the Obama administration, The Associated Press reported.
Graham said Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could have gotten a better deal if he had waited until President Barack Obama left office.
He stated that there is ample support in Congress among Republicans and Democrats for providing Israel with more military aid. And a new U.S. president, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, would be more generous too, he said on a conference call arranged by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
They left money on the table, Graham said of Israel, according to AP.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
They got some F-15’s out of the deal, though.
Is that because Haillary hates Israel only about half as much as Obama does?
So what is to stop them from getting more after obama leaves?
I believe absolutely nothing that Flimsey Grahamnesty says.
And anyone with a functional IQ over 90 cares what Lindsey Graham says or thinks because....?
Donald Trump Breaks Lindsey Graham Like a Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3PQOP6eax8
President Trump would be happy to re-negotiate the deal.
Stop calling him a Republican.
He’s a traitor.
h/t to martin_fierro for the graphic
Franklin Roosevelts rapid conversion from Constitutionalism to the doctrine of unlimited government is an oft-told story. But I am here concerned not so much by the abandonment of states rights by the national Democratic Party an event that occurred some years ago when that party was captured by the socialist ideologues in and about the labor movement as by the unmistakable tendency of the Republican Party to adopt the same course. [ ] Thus, the cornerstone of the Republic, our chief bulwark against the encroachment (on) individual freedom by Big Government, is fast disappearing under the piling sands of absolutism.That was published 56 years ago. Reagan gave a brief respite from that by both his faith in God and force of personality, but it has been business as usual since then.
The Republican Party, to be sure, gives lip service to states rights. We often talk about returning to the states their rightful powers; the Administration has even gone so far as to sponsor a federal-state conference on the problem. But deeds are what count, and I regret to say that in actual practice, the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, summons the coercive power of the federal government whenever national leaders conclude that the states are not performing satisfactorily.
The Conscience of a Conservative (1960), pp. 24-25
I think President Trump is perfectly willing to provide Isreal with further deal. Muzzie terrorist countries, not so much.
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He stated that there is ample support in Congress among Republicans and Democrats for providing Israel with more military aid. And a new U.S. president, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, would be more generous too
That's in no way a fair assumption about Hillary. Trump has already indicated he's willing to expand the agreement.
I don’t think Israel necessarily made a mistake. They took what they could get now, with the possibility of a hostile Hillary coming.
If Trump is elected, the deal can be amended or upgraded.
And I no longer find Linda Graham credible. People of South Carolina, please wake up and replace him!
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