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2023-04-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-
CIA complained US was blindsided by Saudi outreach to Syria and Iran: Report
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Posted by trailing wife 2023-04-09 01:15|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia 

#1 Burns travelled to Saudi Arabia at an undisclosed time this week to discuss intelligence cooperation

Fearful the Magic Kingdom has just shut us off.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-09 01:57||   2023-04-09 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Looking at it on the geopolitical picture. Likely many lukewarm allies right now, are wondering if the USA will even be a 4th rate world power on 5 years? The loyalty $$$$$ and/or military support that is funneled out to various leaders is backed by, for all means, a Bankrupt nation.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-09 04:53||   2023-04-09 04:53|| Front Page Top

#3 When you treat your friends like sh*t, they tend to find new friends.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-04-09 08:40||   2023-04-09 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, ole Jake Sullivan can add another disaster to his Yale boy resume...
-VP Biden's NSA advisor when Biden lost Iraq to ISIS
-lost Iraq to the Iranians
-failed Iran nuclear negotiations
-failed Clinton campaign
-collapse of Afghanistan
-Ukraine disaster
-currently making his administration look like fools in the middle east
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Posted by Tennessee 2023-04-09 09:03||   2023-04-09 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Yep!#3 that is pretty much what it boils down to....

That, plus, the US has a crappy history of success with extended "conflicts" in overseas countries.

But it has made the military industrial complex & its DC Swampers a great personal ROI.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-09 09:11||   2023-04-09 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Which should go first? CIA or FBI? Granted they both should be defunded and broken up, which first?
Posted by AlanC 2023-04-09 09:46||   2023-04-09 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 So the head of Central Intelligence is publicly proclaiming we are 'blindsided' by international movements.

Is there anybody, and I do mean anybody who knows how to play this game?
Posted by Cesare 2023-04-09 10:03||   2023-04-09 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 During the meeting, he expressed Washington’s frustration at being left out of regional developments

When you bring nothing but money to a region that has money there is little value in being invited.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-09 10:57||   2023-04-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Apply the Strong Horse - Weak Horse test and outcomes are obvious. All the Ivy-League pettyfoggery, sophisticated language about nuance and effeminate fashion sense notwithstanding, the real world's leaders see who's who and what's what. Does it look like America will cast off this suicidal malaise induced by the choke-hold our elites have on basic institutions and th media? If I'm on the outside looking in, not so much!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-04-09 11:13||   2023-04-09 11:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Thing about backlash is, the further back it has to lash, the more you'd better stand back.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-09 11:16||   2023-04-09 11:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Thing about backlash is...

My winch cable allegory fits.
Haul them out of their log filled mudpit and with the last tug, the shackle shatters and the cable end comes back thru the windshield.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-09 12:29||   2023-04-09 12:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Does he mean to say that the Saudis have made us a Pariah State?
Posted by Tom 2023-04-09 12:51||   2023-04-09 12:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Not sure who they are complaining about with regard to being blindsided. We depend on the intelligence community to keep us from being blindsided. This is like the baker complaining about the buns being burned.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-09 16:09||   2023-04-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Did you see this one coming Bill??

--Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales
--Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2023-04-09 19:22||   2023-04-09 19:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Blindsided by the Taliban speed with which they took Kabul.

Blindsided by ___________________ (fill in the blank).

Time for the DNI to be subordinated to a new and improved intelligence department. That'll fix everything.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-04-09 22:47||   2023-04-09 22:47|| Front Page Top

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23:47 Skidmark
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