You have to pick
I pick Saudi Arabia over Iran
My Oldest son who’s thinks I’m not conservative enough and studies Syria and Assad
Picks Iran over Saudi Arabia
He gets banned from 4chan
It’s quite a pickle
Anyone upset over Khashoggi doesn’t understand that part of the world, and looks at them through a Western lens. Which is ultimately very, very misleading. There are basically no good guys involved. The Saudis got rid of a Muslim Brotherhood operative they saw as a threat, but did it very inartfully.
There was a thread on this yesterday wherein 10mm gave a brilliant short summary:
“Can someone tell me why I’m supposed to care that a terrorist nation had a terrorist murdered in another terrorist nation?
I’m more concerned with why the Washington Post had a known terrorist on their payroll.”
“Picks Iran over Saudi Arabia”
Iran is ruled by “twelver” Islam and unlike the old Soviet Union it is liable to ignite a huge war without batting an eye.
The Soviets in their atheistic glory weren’t eager to see what the next world has in store for them. Twelver Islam by contrast believes that their Mahdi will return during an apocalyptic war to convert the entire world to Islam.
Saudi Arabia pales by comparison. They might cut off your thieving hand or stone your fornicating girlfriend to death but they won’t cheerfully light the world on fire in a fit of religious zeal.