Mattis: The Middle East at an Inflection Point

[SurelySerious]

The Middle East at an Inflection Point with Gen. Mattis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

https://csis.org/event/middle-east-inflection-point-gen-mattis

On Obama's characterization of our allies as freeloaders:

I thought I'd mistakenly mixed a printout of something Trump said in with the President's comments

On what we can do in a time of fiscal restraint:

Worth more than 10 battleships or five armed divisions is a sense of American political resolve

About an hour of your time. #worthit

SPOILER ALERT: knife hands make multiple appearances

[glitchfire]

Very interesting, thank you. I fear our current president has recessed too far, when the pendulum swings back -- it might get ugly.