(06-19-2019, 11:27 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-19-2019, 11:08 AM)B2hibry Wrote: No country on earth has the same civil rights or free exchange of ideas that the United States currently has. Anyways, it is a factor of zero in the discussion of the United States being invited and paid to have a presence in certain regions and countries.

It is a factor.
It's one thing to defensively prop up a government that rules with the consent of the governed (Latvia, for instance, or South Korea).
It's another to give weapons and refueling sorties to support a government that represses its own people, and does not have their consent (Saudi Arabia), in its efforts to extend it hegemony and the repression that goes along with it to a neighboring country (Yemen).

We don't "give" weapons to Saudi Arabia, they buy them with the third largest military budget in the world.

I guess you would prefer we walk away from the Saudis and let China, an even more oppressive and murdering country, take on the lucrative role of supplying the Saudis military needs while staking their claim as the most influential power in the region.

That would really work out well for the free world.

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