WH freezes aid to Lebanon

[kadee79]

And it leads right to Putin...AGAIN!

The Trump administration has frozen all military aid to the Lebanese army, including a package worth $105 million that both the State Department and Congress approved in September, congressional officials said Friday.

The halt to American funding of the Lebanese Armed Forces, an important multisectarian group, comes at a critical time for Lebanon, as officials are grappling with the country’s largest street protests since its independence in 1943 and a change in leadership forced by the demonstrations. A freeze on the assistance could give Iran and Russia an opening to exert greater influence over the Lebanese military, analysts say, and perhaps even allow the Islamic State and Al Qaeda to gain greater footholds in the country.

The delivery of military aid, especially in cases that involve White House intervention, has become a delicate and divisive issue in Washington. Congressional committees are overseeing an impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump held up $391 million in military aid to Ukraine in an effort to coerce Ukrainian leaders to do political favors for him. Though the president has denied it, senior administration officials have testified that there was indeed a quid pro quo, and the top American diplomat in Ukraine said he sent a cable telling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it was “folly” to withhold the aid.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/white-house-freezes-military-aid-to-lebanon-against-wishes-of-congress-state-dept-and-pentagon/ar-AAJIxLG?li=BBnb7Kz

[Tennesseer]

Should Saad Hariri expect a 'perfect' phone call from trump too?

[dondub]

Just another gift to Iran, just like betraying the Kurds and thus allowing an incursion into Syria.

Why the Trump supporters keep bringing up Obama for the 6 nation treaty and diplomacy versus Trump behavior allowing incursions is beyond me.

[kadee79]

I don't have a link, but he did away with the penalties that Obama had put in place for companies moving their "headquarters" out of the US for tax purposes too...so who is going to make up those lost taxes?

[Opti]

Nov 1, 2019 20:57:25 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Should Saad Hariri expect a 'perfect' phone call from trump too?

I am thinking yes, unless its already happened to Putin ... 

[happyhoix]

He also threatened to withhold federal dollars from California because they refuse to rake their forests like he told them too.

I guess he doesn't realize that 1) most of the fires are in the hilly brush country, not in the 'woods'-  not sure high grasses and brush are 'rakeable?  and 2) most of the open land in CA is either privately owned or federally owned (why doesn't he send the Mar A lago landscaping staff to rake the federal lands?)  Is he going to pass a law that private land owners are responsible for raking their whole property every fall?

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tweets-on-wildfire-aid-to-california-no-more/ar-AAJM6GD

Plus he's considering shutting down the government over budget talks if the Dems won't stop pushing the fake impeachment hoax.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-refuses-to-guarantee-no-shutdown-over-impeachment-well-see/ar-AAJNsMS

Too bad none of his minions have the balls to tell him 1) he's not the overlord of all, able to dole out federal bucks to those he thinks are deserving, and 2) he knows fuck all about forest management.

[thyme4change]

We raked my Dad's hillside property when fire danger was high. A few trees, but mostly more desert bushes. Lots of dry fuel underneath.