{"id":1968,"date":"2016-04-23T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2016-04-23T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:27:51","slug":"bring-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Bring it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the POTUS went to see the Saudis. Whoop. He got snubbed by the king the same as he got snubbed by Comrade Fidel when he was in Cuba the other day on his &#8220;World Apology Tour 2016&#8221;. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Sitting in a meeting with other Arab states arranging for more reasons for them all to hate us and wish for our destruction. \u00a0But, speaking of the Saudis&#8230;As a matter of fact, I<em> don&#8217;t<\/em> believe that all of the previously unreleased 9\/11 documents should BE released. Sure. Some of them should. Others should be, as well, but only heavily redacted. Some, though, not at all. There are such things as &#8220;state secrets&#8221;. They&#8217;re a necessary evil. &#8220;TMI&#8221; on a document can be the same as &#8220;loose lips sink ships&#8221;. We <em>already have<\/em> an issue with documents that ARE state secrets being sent to, stored on and sent from an unsecured non-government server. These types of security breaches can, (and often as not), <em>DO<\/em> get people<em> KILLED<\/em>. \u00a0Especially in that part of the world. \u00a0The Saudi government threatened to use an &#8220;economic&#8221; nuke in the event of their release, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I say BRING IT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hundreds of billions&#8221;, (according to a NYT article), worth of U.S. assets would be sold off. \u00a0Probably to either the Chi-coms or the Com-bloc nations. \u00a0So? \u00a0What would end up as a face-value loss in a selloff such as that would reduce any impact. \u00a0After that? \u00a0I dunno&#8230;would they &#8220;call&#8221; the bonds? \u00a0Freeze us out of trade? \u00a0Go to armed conflict?<\/p>\n<p>No. \u00a0Like it or not, they <em>still<\/em> have more to lose than we do.<\/p>\n<p>Bring it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the POTUS went to see the Saudis. Whoop. He got snubbed by the king the same as he got snubbed by Comrade Fidel when he was in Cuba the other day on his &#8220;World Apology Tour 2016&#8221;. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Sitting in a meeting with other Arab states arranging for more reasons for them all to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=1968\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}