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.”
And further, in that other terrorist nation, Turkey, Erdogan has done worse to real journalists, yet somehow they’re still in NATO.
The media coverage of the Kashoggi story always makes it sound like he was a Washington Post reporter who was abducted by Saudi agents in D.C. and transported to Turkey as a prisoner.
10 mm Is right
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