Ladies and gentlemen, it appears the long anticipated moment of peak mainstream media stupidity may have finally arrived.
This is what passes for journalism in America today.
The Intercept reports:
Sen. Rand Paul’s expression of opposition to a $1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia — which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now — alarmed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday afternoon.
Blitzer’s concern: That stopping the sale could result in fewer jobs for arms manufacturers.
“So for you this is a moral issue,” he told Paul during the Kentucky Republican’s appearance on CNN. “Because you know, there’s a lot of jobs at stake. Certainly if a lot of these defense contractors stop selling war planes, other sophisticated equipment to Saudi Arabia, there’s gonna be a significant loss of jobs, of revenue here in the United States. That’s secondary from your standpoint?”
Paul stayed on message. “Well not only is it a moral question, its a Constitutional question,” Paul said. “Our founding fathers very directly and specifically did not give the president the power to go to war. They gave it to Congress. So Congress needs to step up and this is what I’m doing.”
Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen in March 2015, and has since been responsible for the majority of the 10,000 deaths in the war so far. The U.S.-backed bombing coalition has been accused of intentionally targeting civilians, hospitals, factories, markets, schools, and homes. The situation is so bad that the Red Cross has started donating morgue units to Yemeni hospitals.
The Obama administration has sold more weapons to the Saudis than any other administration, pledging more than $115 billion worth of small arms, tanks, helicopters, missiles, and aircraft.
But hey, the Saudis aren’t really that bad, right. No, they’re just one of the most barbaric, inhumane terrorist supporting states on planet earth. Need some proof?
Here you go:
U.S. Government Reaffirms Total Support for Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
Saudi Arabia Forces the United Nations to Remove it from a List of Child Killers
Record Beheadings and the Mass Arrest of Christians – Is it ISIS? No it’s Saudi Arabia
Nothing to see here ~ move along now, just business as usual.
99% of all Americans killed by muslim terrorists have been killed by Sunnis, but we’re allied with the Sunnis, and the Shia are the “bad” ones.
Don’t give a crap if Saudis kill Yemenis. More power to them.
Can we help the Yemenis as well ? Any dead Mohammedan is a good Mohammedan. We should do all we can to help.
fucking moron, like the people of Yemen don’t know that the U.S. sold arms to Saudi Arabia.
gee, wonder why they hate us? oh yeah, our free-dumbs
The Yemi mooslim fuks are among the worst in the Arab world …. a deep DEEP hated for the USA!USA!USA!, and Israel. They wish us all dead.
Do I feel sorry for them … that basically they are becoming homeless and their country’s infrastructure being destroyed by American armaments? Yes. I can’t help being a little sympathetic for totally innocent people.
OTOH … as stated above … mooslimfuks killing mooslimfuks …. me likey!
I yearn to see Wolf B. hanging from a noose.
The old Soviets after invading a country would first destroy radio towers and then shut down the press. There’s a reason for that.
“$1.1 billion U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia — which has been brutally bombing civilian targets in Yemen using U.S.-made weapons for more than a year now”
“Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen in March 2015, and has since been responsible for the majority of the 10,000 deaths in the war so far.”
$1,100,000,000 / 10,000 deaths = $110,000 / death
Clearly the Saudi’s do not know the splendors of military spending and waste….
“According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money.”
“Counts of deaths reported in newspapers collated by projects like the Iraq Body Count project found 174,000 Iraqis reported killed between 2003 and 2013, with between 112,000-123,000 of those killed being civilian noncombatants.”
“During the war in Afghanistan (2001–14), over 26,000 civilian deaths due to war-related violence have been documented;[1] 29,900 civilians have been wounded.[1] Over 91,000 Afghans, including civilians, soldiers and militants, are recorded to have been killed in the conflict”
$2,400,000,000,000 / (174,000 + 91,000 deaths) = $9,056,604 / kill
This is why the U.S. will NEVER win a war and cannot win a war.
Think about these numbers the next time you hear someone cheerleading for more war.
$10 million per kill – What a total waste of our financial and human resources.
The population of Iraq and Afghanistan is around 50 million and per capita income is $2000 for Iraq and $500 for Afghanistan. $2.4 trillion / 50 million people = $50,000.00 US Dollars per person that has been invested in the destruction of these countrys. A family of four = $200.000.00
Rand Paul is right, and I hope he continues to raise hell. This is insanity! Not that I believe one word of the official 9/11 story but 4276 of the 19 hijackers came from saudi arabia, and we’re arming them? W. T. F?????? This is a special kind of stupid. And anyway, why the heck are we arming anyone?
I’ll bet ol’ wolfie is all in favor of shutting all the gun manufacturers that make guns for US citizens to buy. What about those jobs?
It gets nuttier every day…
thanks for doing the math Ticky.
next we have to calculate what it costs to keep each job.
And, BTW, I have a lack of respect for the wolfy blitzer…
I wish he would skedaddle and a job on another continent.