Wednesday, November 21, 2018

White House release: President Trump's standing with Saudi Arabia

The statement begins the world is a dangerous place. That is the framing premise that was repeated in an impromptu statement to reporter's questioning in front of Marine 1 before heading off to Mar-a-Lago, or Southern White House as Trump puts it. And the framing is repeated by Pompeo in his presentation to our press.

Second Iran is characterized as chief instigator and supporter of terror and war in the Middle East. They've supported Assad who has killed millions of his own people, they've killed Americans and many other innocent people and state forcefully "Death to America."

While Saudi Arabia would withdraw from Yemen if Iran agreed to leave. And Saudi Arabia has agreed to spend billions of dollars to lead the fight against radical Islamic terrorism.

Then on to the deals that Democrats and media would like to see destroyed so that Trump can be diminished.

Saudi Arabia has agreed to invest $450 billion in the United States. 1/4 of that on military equipment from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and other defense contractors. If United States canceled these contracts then Russia and China would be the beneficiaries.

Then on to Jamal Kashoggi. The murder is not condoned. The U.S. has already sanctioned 17 Saudis known to have participated in the murder.

Then on to a characterization of Khashoggi as enemy of the state and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, although Trump hastens to add his decision is not based on that. Both the king and the upcoming Prince deny knowing about the planning or the execution of the murder. Our intelligence services are still investigating. Trump insists repeatedly across several statements and now again, that maybe the king and prince did know and maybe they didn't.

The statement reaffirms that the kingdom has been a great ally in our fight against Iran and the U.S. intends to remain a parter of Saudi Arabia to ensure our interests, and Israeli interest and all other partners in the region.

Trump is aware members of Congress want to go a different direction and Trump will consider whatever ideas are presented but only if they are consistent with the security of America. Trump reaffirms the kingdom has been responsive to his requests to keep oil prices at reasonable levels.

Then this:
As President of the United States I intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm. Very simply it is called America First!

Do statement come any clearer than this?

But Trump is apostate to our Uniparty system, and Prince Muhammad bin Salman is apostate to Saudi hard-ass Islamic political character, a history their citizens pride themselves, so both have enemies at home and abroad who would like nothing more than to see both destroyed.

So leave to our ankle bitting media to use this murder that nobody cares about, and I mean nobody, along with everything else they can dig up to use against him. So they scramble to phrase their questioning just so with the aim of doing maximum damage by the asking, "Mr. President, do you mean to say that human rights must be sacrificed for deals?"

Fighting the impulse to answer, "Look, you measly little cocksuroach, don't put words in my mouth. If I had wanted to say that then I would have. " Instead he says with saintly patience, "Let me repeat what I just told you ..."

Pompeo does the same thing.

Over and over and over and over end over end over Andover Andover.

1 comment:

Amartel said...

Getting lectures about human rights and justice from Iran and Turkey and the rest of the dictatorial national disaster cesspool of humanity is ludicrous. Not much better: the grools from Europe who maintained long term partnerships with multiple human rights abusing nations for self-serving purposes. Worst of all: lectures from grim partisan leftists who downplay leftist atrocities on a regular basis. Making a big deal out of this one guy, their partisan Muslim Brotherhood ally, while millions of innocents died on their ideological watch.