Turned a blind eye to 9-11 too.
The Neocons are still trying to make this our problem.
16 of 19 of the 9/11 jihadists were Saudis.
Riyadh, Mecca and Medina should have been nuked on 9/12/2001.
Any, yeah, it's disgusting that our weapons are being used in Yemen.
Trixie should be ashamed!
It’s doubtful the crown prince had anything to do with the murder. He inherited a secret service that is imbued with Muslim culture and Muslim culture is brutal. It will be difficult to reform his clandestine services because what they did is okay by the Ninth century Koran. The ninth century is long gone and what happened is not okay by twenty-first century western standards. The prince is trying to update his kingdom for without the twenty-first century businesses it will fail. He knows this. His attempt to create a city shared with Egypt and Jordan where business and business people can operate like they were in Europe is an attempt to move Saudi Arabia into the modern age. But, it’s like updating a sword to somehow fire bullets. It’s going to be a tough transition. It won’t do us any good to lay this at his feet as he is our best hope of bringing Saudi Arabia into the western fold.
“bone saw to Istanbul”
Sounds like a good name for an 80s new wave song.
I don’t see how the assassination could benefit Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. He’s trying to get international money for large projects in his country. A conference of big investors just concluded in his country. Important investors didn’t come because of the assassination.
Therefore, I don’t think the assassination was something he wanted.
“The biggest mistake the Trump administration made in the Jamal Khashoggi case occurred while Khashoggi was still alive: letting Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, think he could get away with something so heinous — and so heinously stupid.”
Jonah Goldberg being Jonah Goldberg, that is, a never-Trumper and a repulsive prick.
Before his mother handed him his career on a silver platter, Jonah Goldberg was a wet-behind-the-ears nobody who used “like” three to five times EACH sentence.
He was worse than the most devotd high-school Valley Girl at a San Fernando Valley shopping mall.
You would have thought he was joking.
He regularly went on the radio doing it, too.
Why is the murder of a Muslim Brotherhood enabler/apologist/supporter any kind of “problem” for US?
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy based on tribal allegiances with a culture based on an almost biblical sense of honor. Most of the developed world cast off those forms in a series of bloody revolutions beginning in the late 18th century and wrapping up with unprecedented bloodletting of WWI. That's what was meant by the slogan "To make the world safe for democracy". The challenge for SA is to find a way to adapt to the 21st Century with a minimum of split blood. The alternative is much bloodier for them and the rest of the world.
Jamal Kashoggi wasn’t murdered.
Yo moron choir history lesson time for you
During WW2 we did business with a mass murdering thug Stalin to keep a worse mass murdering thug Hitler, from taking over the world.
We do business with bad people all over the world to keep worse people in check
Grow up finally! These histrionics indicate a level of infantile political stupidity that is simply inexcusable is suppose rational adults
Also, THIS hysteric hyperventilating about a total non issue rather then fighting to educate voter right before a critical mid term election about who the Left really is, is another example of why “Conservative inc” has been the inept, incompetent political movement in US History.
Jonah Goldberg has sand in his vagina again!
The answer is: pull all the Saudi visas except for the ambassador and his staff. Solves two issues with one move.
The dems will say to soft. The Saudis will say too harsh. So Trump can say just right.
I do not care that terrorist supporter Khashoggi was brutally murdered. He got what he deserved.
It’s always been a problem. Cut them off!
They want you dead. Read the Koran, for God’s sake!
Mr. Goldberg points out the excesses and crimes (?) of MBS, the shahs and others, but fails to mention that one US president, none other than Barack Hussein Obama, is known to have ordered the assassination of at least one US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who hadn’t been convicted of anything. Two other Americans, Adam Gadahn and Ahmed Farouq, who were “not intentionally targeted” were also killed by Obama-ordered drone strikes.
I believe our approach to such things falls into the “selective outrage” category.
The Saudis are not financing and supporting terrorist groups killing Americans in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan
The Saudis are not actively harassing US shipping in the Persian Gulf
The Saudis are not developing nuclear weapon capacity.
Iran is.
So it is past time “Conservative Inc” stop being the mindless propaganda drones of the Iranians and focus on who are the real enemies of the USA.
Your idiocy on this topic is well established. You don’t need to keep posting on to provide more evidence of your complete lack of a hint of a notion of a whiff a clue of a rational thought.