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Sure it’s just a coincidence that one day after Saudi Arabia says it will help fill any oil shortage caused by cutting off Iranian exports to world markets, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia announced they have finalized a deal for 84 new F-15 fighters and upgrades for 70 more. The White House said the $30 billion package will keep 50,000 Americans employed and generate $3.5 billion annually in economic activity in the U.S.
I’m an old guy from the Vietnam era, a psychiatrist who studied violence in the 1960s, who treated survivors of trauma in the ’70s and who helped create and nurture the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder through the ’80s.
Trash can be deadly. You can get a hint of that from the contract solicitation issued Tuesday by the Defense Logistics Agency’s European disposition office seeking “hazardous waste services in southwest Asia.”
