Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (178341)	9/15/2021 5:19:13 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By pak73 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218160

I sometimes find self in agreement with Ron Paul, but not always, but I always suspect Blinken zerohedge.com Watch: Rand Paul Grills Sec. Blinken: "You'd Think You'd Know Before You Off Someone With A Predator Drone" Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the one Congressional leader who went "gloves off" in grilling Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday over the US drone strike in Kabul last month which came in the final days of the chaotic evacuation and troop pullout. The Pentagon has continued this week to defend the Aug.29 attack which it says was against an ISIS-K target in the vehicle which was utterly destroyed. This despite a detailed New York Times investigation which found it killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, with the original target likely being an aid worker and not a terrorist at all. The most heated moment of the exchange came with Sen. Paul asked Blinken directly, "Was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?" To which Blinken responded "I don't know," and said the strike was still being reviewed internally. Sen. @RandPaul: "The guy the Biden administration droned: was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?" Sec. Blinken: "I don't know because we're reviewing it." Sen. Paul: "You'd think you'd kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone." pic.twitter.com/kGWSuTySho — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 14, 2021 Paul continued to press Blinken over just what the Pentagon knew about its target ahead of the strike, and that's when the Republican senator delivered his most stinging and sarcastic rebuke: "You'd think you'd kind of know before you off someone with a predator drone," Paul said. Paul explained that the drone and assassinations programs going back across multiple US administrations have served to make America less safe, given it leads to "blowback". . "If you killed an aid worker on accident... do you think we're better off because of that?" Paul said, emphasizing that it inevitably weakens US standing abroad. The exchange came on the heels of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley previously asserting the drone strike took out an "imminent" ISIS-K threat. [url=][/url] Ultimately Blinken during his testimony admitted the US now doesn't exactly know who it killed in the drone strike, but that it's still being investigated by the Pentagon. "The administration is of course reviewing that strike and I’m sure that a full assessment will be forthcoming," Blinken said, leading Paul to press the issue. "So you don’t know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?" the senator asked. When Blinken said he could not speak to that in the setting they were in, Paul asked, "So you don’t know or won’t tell us?" "I don’t know because we’re reviewing it," Blinken admitted. US security at Kabul airport had been vulnerable and on high alert following the Aug.26 devastating suicide bombing attack which killed 13 US troops and over 60 Afghan civilians. Politically, the Biden White House was also under pressure to "do something" by way of revenge for the initial ISIS-K suicide attack. In announcing the drone operation, administration officials had hailed it as a "success" in terms of delivering a blow to ISIS-K, despite reports quickly coming out that tragically most of the deceased were actually children.

To: ggersh who wrote (178341)	9/15/2021 7:05:00 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218160

Ref the link you posted, re <<What Was Biden's Diktat The Saudis Are So Furious About?>> Indubitably the Saudis are about to be thrown under the bus so that they are less able to interfere in Russian election 2022 or China election 2024, to be extorted to buy more use-less and soon to be less-supported F35s to share like-minded cost, ideally the batches Teams Australia, Japan, Israel, Canada and UK took delivery and have on order. Everything is connected to everything else. I might have gotten the election-to-be-interfered country names wrong, for it is Thursday morning. moonofalabama.org September 15, 2021 News & views ...September 14, 2021 What Was Biden's Diktat The Saudis Are So Furious About? Two seasoned commentators, Abdel Bari Atwan and M.K. Bhadrakumar, note the recent snag in U.S. - Saudi relations. Writes Atwan: The past two weeks have seen an unprecedented rise in tensions between the two sides, which could lead to political and economic standoffs in the days and months to come. Several recent developments attest to this. Last week the Associated Press, well known for its connections to Washington decision-makers, confirmed that the Biden administration has withdrawn all its Patriot and (more sophisticated) THAAD air defence systems from the kingdom. ... Then it was announced that a visit to the kingdom by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin – as part of a Gulf tour that included Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain — had been postponed or cancelled, ostensibly due to ‘scheduling issues’. That was an unprecedented snub reflecting official Saudi anger at the US. A minor Saudi prince, Sattam Bin-Khaled Al Saud, was assigned to explain that it was Saudi Arabia that called off the visit. The ‘great kingdom’, he tweeted, would not be dictated to, and would only conduct relations on the basis of ‘shared interests and mutual respect’. No ruling family member has spoken about the US this way previously. The young royal, who is close to Crown Prince Muhammad Bin-Salman, went on to contrast the cancellation of Austin’s visit with the very warm reception the kingdom accorded to Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian Duma’s international affairs committee. This was intended as a warning to Washington that Riyadh potentially has an alternative ally in Moscow — a ‘brave’ but potentially risky and very costly challenge. There was also the recent publishing of FBI findings about Saudi involvement in 9/11. And on Afghanistan the U.S. worked with Qatar instead of using Saudi channels. But both issues are neither new nor do they justify such a response.