Maybe you can answer this for me? Why these doomsday predictions, threats to our military, financial cataclysms, and most of all, why is this called “unprecedented”? Didn’t the Lockerbie families do essentially the same thing against Libya, for same reason, sponsoring terrorism, and with the cooperation of US govt?
“Why these doomsday predictions, threats to our military, financial cataclysms, and most of all, why is this called “unprecedented”?”
Because the Saudis paid for Obama to go to Harvard. Because many Bushies have become highly paid consultants and lobbyists for the Saudis. Because Bill Clinton gets paid 500,000 for a speech in Dubai. Because Grover Norquist is paid for. The establishment is freaking out and protecting their money.
Mark Twain covered this in “Corn Pone Opinions”.. Show me where a man gets his corn pone, and ill show you where he gets his opinions.
Simple as that.
I think....if you went back to the 1950s or prior...any time that a nation created a terror act, then the “victim-country” responded, and war usually occurred. I wouldn’t just use the 1914 episode. There are probably a dozen other examples. You can view the episodes in the Philippines that led to the US having troops there....the Panama business with Noriega....or the Falklands.
In this case, we have two or three wild-cards. There’s roughly 100 billion dollars which the Saudis own in US debt. There’s also billions invested in various mutual funds. If you were a responsible Saudi financial adviser, you would not want some idiot judge trying to freeze your account. My reaction would be to sell the debt (losing money) and then sell the stocks....taking the money to the EU or Japan. It’d throw the US into an economic tailspin but that’s the value of the problem at hand.
Oddly, both Bush and Obama could have gone and laid down some tough positions with the Saudis and punished them in various ways. Neither had the willing nature to do that. So we are at this junction of a fantastic court case.....worth I think in the 100 billion range and the Saudis now realizing that a vast sum of money might be taken away. If this were you....how would you react?
The amusing thing is that Obama could have forbid the 28 secret pages from being made public. That would have stalled all of this for six months, until Trump arrived. For some reason, he wanted the pages out there and I think he wanted the Saudis to react...maybe to take their money out. Course, even if they take the money and leave....then what? Who around the globe wants that much cash thrown into their banking system?