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 recently 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.”
Also, that “another terrorist nation” is Turkey. Erdogan has done worse to real journalists, and no one in the Biden Administration is saying a thing about that, and Turkey is still in NATO for some reason.
Biden Unveils Policy Honoring Osama bin Laden’s Old Friend
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3939408/posts
Great unpacking of this by Daniel Greenfield.
Yes. You are 100% right.
There are no good guys over there. But there are “Our Guys” and “Not Our Guys”.
We should be supporting Our Guys and fight the others. Not trying to appease our sworn enemies for no apparent reason.
In the line of Biden reasoning, one could make a point that Osama bin Laden was a journalist (he published all kind of statements). Then killing him was a terrorist act.
Maybe sanction Obama and Hillary for killing Osama?