Posted on 09/12/2016 7:11:31 AM PDT by Lorianne
Sen. Rand Pauls expression of opposition to a $1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now alarmed CNNs Wolf Blitzer on Thursday afternoon.
Blitzers concern: That stopping the sale could result in fewer jobs for arms manufacturers.
So for you this is a moral issue, he told Paul during the Kentucky Republicans appearance on CNN. Because you know, theres a lot of jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling war planes, other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, theres going to be a significant loss of jobs, of revenue here in the United States. Thats secondary from your standpoint?
Paul stayed on message. Well not only is it a moral question, its a constitutional question, Paul said. Our founding fathers very directly and specifically did not give the president the power to go to war. They gave it to Congress. So Congress needs to step up and this is what Im doing.
Watch the exchange:
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I would like to see Trump address the nations college presidents and castigate them for neglecting to inculcate any moral values or sense of civic responsibility beyond the financial bottom line. Look at Gates and Zuckerberg as examples of the emptyness of the Ivys.
So now the lefty Blitzer is worried about the financial health of employees of defense contractors? Spare me!
When prominent members of the Royal family have problems requiring surgery, they go to Ohio--in their cases, Cleveland--to have the work done.
One could go on, But if you cannot see the difference between the attitude of the House of Saud and that of the Iranian Mullahs, your head is too buried in the sand, trying to make an anti-Islamic statement, to recognize friend from foe. But the differences are massive.
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