Making the click-through worthwhile: A U.S. troop deployment to a dangerous corner of the world deserves more public attention and debate, The New Yorker wants to argue that Al Franken got a raw deal, and I’ve got 99 of something . . . but not problems.
Psst: Don’t Tell Anyone, We’re Sending U.S. Troops Back into Saudi Arabia
The sort of news that doesn’t generate many outrage clicks, but probably matters more than, say, baseball Hall-of-Famer Mariano Rivera’s allegedly “far-right politics”: In June the Pentagon started deploying equipment and hundreds of troops back to a military base in Saudi Arabia — Patriot missile air-defense batteries, fighter jets, and eventually, more than 500 personnel ...
