Marjorie Taylor Greene Flubs Key Fact While Raging Against Decades of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) raised eyebrows this week with a post hammering decades of U.S. foreign policy – including long-held GOP positions – in a social media post that included a major geopolitical error.

“All the narratives are wearing off,” Greene began, adding:

Vietnam was a pointless war and we lost.
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Afghanistan was a waste.
And we gained nothing from any of those wars.
Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons and the 19 terrorists from 9/11 were all Saudis. Did we go to war with them? Nope.

Greene was widely panned for claiming that Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons, as it is not one of the nine countries generally known to possess them. Some of her defenders, however, suggested that Greene, who is a member of the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, may have been inadvertently confirming that the Saudis have bought nuclear weapons in the past.

Greene’s post continued, “North Korea has nukes. Little rocket man hasn’t blown us all up yet but we were told he was going to. Pakistan and China have nukes as well. And big bad Russia has nuclear weapons. We were told Putin was going to sweep across Europe, just like Hitler and that hasn’t happened yet either. And he couldn’t take Ukraine in 3 years.” She continued:

We’ve been told Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons at any moment for as long as I can remember.
People just don’t care anymore because none of these things actually affected our lives unless they were in the military and shipped over to these foreign countries and blown up.
But what has directly affected Americans and people that I know is the cartels constant flow of drugs into every single city in America and cartel crime and murder.
I’ve never seen a Houthi. Nor has anyone else I know.
But what everyone knows is that for some reason we don’t attack the real enemy that kills Americans every single day. No we have to runoff and bomb some country somewhere else in the world because we’re told they’re the bad guys even though they never did anything directly to Americans like the cartels have.

Notably, Greene is a close ally of President Donald Trump, who has been proudly boasting of his recent bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels over their attacks on international shipping lanes. Trump has also long vowed to never let Iran get a nuclear weapon and is currently in negotiations with the Iranians on the topic.

Greene also recently accused the U.S. of trying to “occupy” Ukraine with Trump’s mineral development deal — in a long screed attacking foreign policy hawks in the GOP as she pushes for a much more isolationist outlook.

Below are some reactions to Greene’s post from both the right and left, many of whom simply shared the “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” meme in reply.

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