crown prince mbs gettin' t'work:
Saudi vows new Islamic alliance 'will wipe terrorists from the earth
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-vows-islamic-alliance-wipe-terrorists-earth-140228852.html'
andrew mccabe btfo
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Wray Demotes Embattled Andrew McCabe; Internal Investigation Dubbed “Train Wreck”
http://truepundit.com/exclusive-fbi-director-wray-demotes-embattled-andrew-mccabe-internal-investigation-dubbed-train-wreck/
putin BTFOs McDonalds
Russia to declare McDonald's a 'foreign agent' for misleading advertisements
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/11/26/russia-to-declare-mcdonalds-foreign-agent-for-misleading-advertisements.html
Tufts University postpones Scaramucci event after he threatens student and paper with lawsuit
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/26/tufts-postpones-scaramucci-event-after-threatens-student-and-paper-with-lawsuit/uKOsaakB8dH3cyiyYcwiyL/story.html
if you're not following @ThomasWictor, you should be. latest tweet storm unrolled:
(1) "Cheat and retreat":
The terrible American record of attempting to neutralize Hezbollah.
(2) Hezbollah was formed in Lebanon in 1982. A Shia Muslim group, it fought the Sunni PLO and then Israel.
(3) Since 1982, Iran and Syria have promised the US to disband Hezbollah.
(4) "Tehran meant to use Hezbollah as a Trojan horse to turn Lebanon into a satrapy in all but name."
Satrapy = a province.
(5) "The scheme outraged and frightened many in Lebanon, including the then-one-star Gen. Michel Aoun, who emerged as a champion of the campaign against the creation of a parallel army in Lebanon."
(6) Michel Aoun is the current president of Lebanon.
He opposes Hezbollah becoming a parallel army.
Interesting, EH?!
(7) Back to Amir Taheri's piece.
(8) "A promise to disband Hezbollah’s paramilitary wing became a major item in the secret negotiations that the late Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini’s government held with the Reagan administration in Washington in 1985-86."
(9) "Eight years later, Tehran was trying to sell the same bill of goods to a new US administration under President Bill Clinton."
(10) "In a 180-minute meeting in Damascus in 1993, Clinton’s Secretary of State Warren Christopher made an almost-identical deal with then-Syrian President Hafez Assad, who assured him that Tehran was also on board."
(11) Fast forward to 2006.
(12) "Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, an expert on the region, embarked on shuttle diplomacy to save Hezbollah from destruction in exchange for a promise that it would dissolve its armed units."
(13) "France went further by inviting Iran’s foreign minister at the time, Ali Akbar Velayati, to Paris, where he signed an accord with his French counterpart Herve de Charrette to guarantee the continued existence of Hezbollah in exchange for surrendering its arms."
(14) "The tactic that Tehran used in these cases is known in diplomacy as 'cheat-and-retreat.' When your back is against the wall, you sign whatever your adversaries want."
(15) "Then, because your adversaries do not have the same attention span, they will soon forget what you signed. Then you can resume your shenanigans until the next crisis."
(16) "It is a tactic that has saved Hezbollah several times in the past three decades."
(17) Now, THIS is why the Middle East has changed forever:
(18) "Muslim scholars have identified the absence of strong state structures as the principal reason for the historic weakness of Islamic nations and their domination by Western powers from the 19th century onward."
(19) Now do you see why Mohammed bin Salman is rooting out corruption in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia and EVERY OTHER NATION in the the region must become strong and able to stand up to pressure from westerners.
Dems now turning on Mueller
POTUS's 5D chess moves earlier will come into play on this
From NewsWeak:
ROBERT MUELLER IS A HOTHEAD WHO CAN'T OWN UP TO HIS MISTAKES, FORMER AIDES SAY
http://www.newsweek.com/robert-mueller-special-counsel-russia-aides-criticize-722670
>>5188 Wictor continued:
(20) King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made peace with Israel and created new armed forces.
In TOTAL SECRECY.
He was a great, great man.
(21) His brother King Salman promised that everything would remain the same.
(22) What King Salman was saying was no abrupt policy shifts from ABDULLAH'S SECRET AGENDA OF REFORM.
(23) As Governor of Riyadh for fifty years, Salman was never once even ACCUSED of corruption.
(24) So the Saudis fooled the entire planet.
Again.
Effortlessly.
(25) WE were happy with meaningless promises that allowed Hezbollah to continue its reign of terror.
(26) No massive war. No massive destruction. No piles of dead bodies.
How will Lebanon be freed?
(27) New commander of the army.
(28) In Lebanon, the army is the "guarantor of civil peace."
That means the army must be independent of Hezbollah.
(29) It's already happened.
We're giving the Lebanese armed forces advanced weaponry, and we're training them here in the US.
(30) Hezbollah, Iran, and Assad anticipated a massive Israeli ground invasion and air campaign.
The entire Hezbollah arsenal is geared toward fighting THAT kind of war.
(31) What happens if the Gulf Cooperation Council has the ability to knock out ALL of Hezbollah's weapons systems?
And what if the GCC infiltrates 30,000 strategic special operators into Lebanon?
Or 130,000?
(32) Trump understands that the US has done nothing but prolong the agony.
So he'll support whatever the LOCALS decide to do.
(33) "Cheat and retreat" won't work with Saudi Arabia and her allies.
Lebanon will soon be free.
Count on it…
(34) ADDENDUM: Americans like the haunted, terrified Jennifer Rubin have argued FOREVER that the US must "take charge" in the Middle East.
(35) Well, @realDonaldTrump has created a new role for us: partner.
We get involved ONLY WHEN ASKED, and we LISTEN when told "This is a really bad idea."