Tweety befriends terror instigator Saudi Arabia, and insults. bullies, and embarrasses allies in NATO. Acts like a "drunken tourist" at G-7 meeting.
"The Most Bizarre Moments From Trump’s Trip to Saudi Arabia"
By Margaret Hartmann
"Trump's Warm Welcome in a Nation He Said Was Behind 9/11"
". . . during the campaign Trump said Saudi Arabia wants “women as slaves and to kill gays,” and suggested on more than one occasion that they were behind the 9/11 attacks (which is not totally off the mark)."
". . . Trump is close to the ideal American leader, from the Saudi perspective. The president has evinced more respect for dictatorial strength than human rights; views foreign policy in transactional terms; places a premium on loyalty; surrounds himself with fanatically anti-Tehran generals; and appears deeply susceptible to manipulation through flattery."
"In a shocking turnaround during his speech on Sunday, Trump noted that Muslims are the most frequent targets of terror groups like ISIS, and said the West is not engaged in a “clash of civilizations” with the Muslim world. “This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations,” he said. “This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it. This is a battle between Good and Evil.”"
"Though he attacked President Obama and Hillary Clinton for refusing to use the term “radical Islamic extremism,” Trump never uttered the full phrase during his speech. Sunday on ABC’s This Week, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made the case against using the term, and suggested Trump wouldn’t."
"Ivanka and Melania Trump Praise Saudi Women's "Empowerment""
"“In every country, including the United States, women and girls face challenges,” Trump said. “Saudi Arabia’s progress, especially in recent years, is very encouraging,” she continued, “but there’s still a lot of work to be done.”"
"How Trump Got Comfortable With Saudi Religious Extremism"
By Ed Kilgore, 22 May 2017
"By any reasonable standard, from its founding Saudi Arabia has always been and remains the chief exporter and financier of “radical Islam,” in the sense of subsidizing massive missionary activity aimed at promoting the rigid, quasi-totalitarian Wahhabi sect."
It appears Tweety just decided he can "use" Saudi to get rid of Iran and ISIS. It I a "transactional" act, and win-lose again. We will see how that works.
"In any event, being able to pretend that Saudi Arabia is not only innocent of complicity in “radical Islamic terrorism”—a contention Donald Trump repeatedly rejected before becoming president —but is America’s chief ally in fighting it will square a lot of circles for the Trump administration. He may get some blowback from conservative evangelical clergy upset at this obvious whitewashing of Wahhabism. But insofar as there aren’t a whole lot of Saudis becoming refugees to Europe and the United States, Trump’s less theologically inclined supporters might have no problem with the president’s new buddies, particularly if he continues to be uninhibited in his attacks on Iranians and ISIS and the “threat” posed by refugees from the Syrian hellscape. "
"Listen Liberals: Russia Is Not Our Enemy"
Dan Kovalik, Contributor
Labor & Human Rights Lawyer
02/15/2017 04:01 pm ET | Updated Feb 15, 2017
"I must say that I am simply baffled by what appears to be the prevailing view in this country, and especially among liberals, that Russia is somehow a threat to the United States."
Boy, and I thought all the nukes aimed at the USA meant Russia was ready to wipe America off the planet meant the Russians WERE OUR ENEMY. Stupid me!
"While I certainly understand it is in the interest of the military-industrial complex, again as Kucinich explains, to continue to vilify Russia in order to justify our already-bloated military spending, I am a bit taken aback at how eager most liberals are to embrace and even stoke this demonization.
Given the poor historical knowledge of most Americans, a little refresher on past and current affairs is in order."
OK, this is going to be good. Since I lived through all the appropriate history Dan K. is about to recite, maybe I will learn something new? Ho will he spin this? Russia has not shot any Americans, but they have those ICBMs, and what about the Cuban Missiles?
"Russia was our ally in WWII in defeating the Nazis. And, contrary to what most Americans are taught, it was Russia that truly won that war in Europe, having lost over 20 million people to the war and having been responsible for 80 percent of the Allies’ Nazi kills.
In addition, while many of us might not like the messenger, Donald Trump was correct when, asked about Putin being a killer, he suggested that the U.S. has been less than innocent in this respect. Indeed, though many were horrified by such a moment of candor by a U.S. President, Trump was engaging in gross understatement."
OK, this is true and shows Russia can help America and the World when THEY HAVE TO HELP. But Russia has a Communist country and no matter America has been worse than Russia in many ways, are we really ready to be allies?
"Let me be so bold as to say that, certainly since 1960 and up to the present time, the U.S. has been much more brutal and blood-thirsty than Russia. It is not even a close call here. For example, as Noam Chomsky (no lover of the USSR is he) has explained:
It is not seriously in question, as John Coatsworth writes in the recently published Cambridge University History of the Cold War, that from 1960 to “the Soviet collapse in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly exceeded those in the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.” Among the executed were many religious martyrs, and there were mass slaughters as well, consistently supported or initiated by Washington.
Chomsky goes on to detail the millions killed by the U.S. in Indochina during its shameful war on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and Reagan’s support of apartheid South Africa’s rampage through Southern Africa which resulted in the deaths of 1.5 million people."
This is true, all of it, sadly. But notwithstanding Americas blood thirsty treatment of the peoples of the world, how does Russia become our ally over Europe? How is Russia to be trusted? I will grant that NATO bases surround Russia, and that has to be a concern for Russia. How does that make Russia an ally?
"In other words, it is Russia which should be afraid of us, and not the other way around. And, President Trump’s expressed desire to stop antagonizing Russia and to work with it in defeating ISIS in places like Syria should be welcomed as eminently reasonable and indeed necessary to avoid a possible nuclear confrontation. This should also be welcome by an American public whose resources have been drained by the greatest military-spending spree by far on the planet.
Certainly, liberals, who at least once stood for peace and for greater social spending, should be in the lead in cheering such overtures instead of drumming up anti-Russian hatred which can only lead to more war and more impoverishment of our society."
OK, I read it all. America is scary bad, but I assure Dan, Russia is also scary bad and he is ignoring their record of atrocities to the detriment of his argument.
Russia is not ready to be our ally in any sense whatsoever. I wish they were ready to help us crush ISIS, but in my opinion, they will never stand side by side with American soldiers to kill iSIS.
