(06-20-2019, 01:08 PM)knarnn Wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/20/aske...d-out.html

Trump responds - believes the attack was unintentional.

I get the feeling that Trump has learned a lesson here. It was all fun and games while he was just  undoing what Obama did out of spite, but I don't think he ever wanted to start a war.

During the art of the deal book tour, he said that Japan should actually be paying the US Treasury a certain amount every year. He has transitioned from there to saying that our allies should be spending a certain percentage of their GDP for their own defense - so long as they spend most of it with us based corporations such as Lockheed and Boeing. As much as I would like our government to cut Saudi Arabia loose, and the Trump worldview the Saudis are model citizens. They buy lots and lots of our military hardware. Stuff that they don't even have the skilled manpower to use properly, some of it. 
And the Qataris are also model citizens in the Trump worldview.
But now Saudi and Qatar are in a fight.  Trump was ready to jump headlong into that one but fortunately Tillerson and Mattis held him back.
And I think he learned something.
He sat back and did nothing and watched both of them continue to buy our stuff.
He's applying these lessons to Iran, I hope.

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