Posted on Jul 11, 2019
‘Follow the damn law’: Bipartisan criticism flies over Trump’s emergency arm sales
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Cooper said: “We simply cannot allow openings our adversaries will most certainly exploit to disrupt partnerships, to reduce our regional influence, to impact our defense industrial base, and to spread chaos. Remaining a reliable security partner to our allies and friends around the world is also in the interest and furtherance of our values.”
It is not a national emergency or any kind of emergency to push weapons sale cause another country may fill the void. Foreign military sales is a global competitive open market. Glad to see some bipartisanship on this topic.
It is not a national emergency or any kind of emergency to push weapons sale cause another country may fill the void. Foreign military sales is a global competitive open market. Glad to see some bipartisanship on this topic.
‘Follow the damn law’: Bipartisan criticism flies over Trump’s emergency arm sales
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I agree. Arms sales have protocols that must be followed to ensure that the wrong people do not lay their hands on advanced US weaponry, or at the very least, that runs through appropriate filters in the Executive Branch and Congress. Past "Emergency sales" were run through Congress - Lend/Lease in WWII comes to mind. It should not be hard to continue this practice.
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Well, since we never learned from having armed the Taliban (9/11) and Iraq (Gulf Wars), Im very skeptical that anything is going to change. That we are becoming more involved in the same of weapons, it's disgustingly hypocritical to scorn other nations from doing it.
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