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EleanorR

(2,374 posts)
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:14 PM Oct 2019

We're deploying 2,000 troops to effing Saudi Arabia??

We've betrayed our allies, left them to be slaughtered, now this.

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is deploying three new anti-missile systems, two squadrons of jet fighters and approximately 2,000 additional troops to Saudi Arabia in an accelerating U.S. buildup meant to counter Iranian hostilities in the region, officials said Friday.

The move represents the largest of three round of U.S. military deployments to Saudi Arabia since July, and comes as U.S. lawmakers hold a negative view of arms sales and support to Riyadh.

The Pentagon will deploy two Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries as well as a Terminal High Altitude Air Defense system, or THAAD, which provides broader air defenses against the ballistic missile threat for much of the region, officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-to-deploy-around-2-000-additional-troops-to-saudi-arabia-11570809038

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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. There's a stable genius move
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:18 PM
Oct 2019

Wasn't it the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia that so enraged Osama bin Laden? That worked out well, as I recall.

Initech

(99,914 posts)
5. All this just to protect some fucking oil?
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:20 PM
Oct 2019

Seriously shit like this really makes me want to go electric. Fuck Saudi Arabia.

maxsolomon

(32,987 posts)
7. All that terror, and for what, Al Qaeda?
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:23 PM
Oct 2019

The Infidels were driven from the holy land, and now they're back less that 20 years later, at the invitation of your monarch?

Wahhabists will be so sad.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
8. So 2000 in addition to the previous deployments?
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:29 PM
Oct 2019

How many are already there?

This is so much bullshit.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
9. Clicked, but I refuse to subscribe to read about how our taxes
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 12:31 PM
Oct 2019

are being spent. WSJ should make news like this available for free.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
13. So troops supporting a people without a homeland who have fought to end ISIS, that's bad
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 01:12 PM
Oct 2019

Supporting an extremist regime that was the homeland of most of the 9/11 hijackers...that's good??

This is all about the money and I'm sure Trump and his minions will be getting paid handsomely by the Saudis

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