Posted on 11/21/2018 11:46:44 AM PST by detective
Of President Donald Trump’s many disruptions to the established order, his foreign policy has been perhaps the least understood and least accepted by elites. Yesterday, President Trump resisted public pressure and declined to significantly reorient American foreign policy in light of Saudi Arabia’s brutal killing of its political opponent Jamal Khashoggi, who was also a columnist for the Washington Post.
In a statement, Trump said that what happened to Khashoggi was terrible, but that Saudi Arabia is an ally that shares our broader strategic interests in the region, while Iran remains a foe to be countered.
Trump had already imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi individuals over their alleged roles in Khashoggi’s killing. Anti-Trump journalists, Obama-era supporters of the Iran deal, and Republican supporters of Bush-era democracy-spreading wanted the United States to do much more to dramatically change its relationship with Saudi Arabia on account of the killing.
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Everything the media has said about him is a lie.
Sheer hypocrisy. Everyone else in D.C. has been kissing Saudi buttocks for decades.
At least Trump has a rational diplomatic purpose.
Gets it wrong, on purpose.
Two words: Seth Rich
When I see the same outrage for Americans murdered in our inner cities and and those by illegal aliens, I might start to care.
I stand with my President and his decisions , 100%
The Saudi royal family needs to pick a replacement for the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince should be made to choose his palace in Saudi Arabia in which he would like to spend the next 20 years.
“Khashoggi was not a journalist. He was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, terrorist supporter and admirer and follower of bin Laden. He was working to undermine and overthrow the government of Saudi Arabia.”
A warrant should have been issued for him and his extradition obtained.
This isn’t the Middle Ages.
Indeed, the devious, backward, Islamist Saudis have had far more influence in Washington and America than they deserve, or is safe for America. The role of the Saudi Government or its key tribesmen in 9/11 will never be revealed.
Unfortunately, if we want to maintain the status quo not only mideast politics, but the oil markets and even the US Dollar as the world’s premier currency - we need them, as repugnant as it seems.
Now that they have formed a silent alliance with the Israelis the stakes of boat-rocking are even higher.
It is in the Middle East.
The globalist elites infesting the U.S. gov’t have being covering for Muslim Brotherhood jihadis for quite a while now. Look no further than jihadi Barack Hussein Obama.
“....This isn’t the Middle Ages. ….”
It is in Saudi Arabia!
Your foolish input is irrelevant
Indeed, much of the world has become much more sophisticated at harassing political opponents. Charge them with tax fraud, corruption, accuse them of abusing women or having sex with children, take away their passports, tie them up in litigation and investigation, etc, etc.
The saudis are well aware of these methods and MBS used them, however obviously, against a large group in 2017, including the very public Al-Waleed bin Talal.
One wonders why they chose such a brutal method against Kashoggi? Some kind of urgency? Need to send a message?
I fully support the Sauds in the middle east.....just like here there will always be ‘incidents’ that will be made into Political fodder that really are nobodies business. This event in the middle east was one of them.....it was a ‘family’ affair from the get go.
“This isn’t the Middle Ages.”
That has to be the most irrelevent statement I have read in a long time.
Of course we are not in the middle ages. But terrorism is everywhere in the Muslim world and Khashoggi was a terrorist supporter.
If you believe that the Muslim terrorists will abide by legal niceties and force is never necessary then we just have to disagree.
In Saudi Arabia, it’s precisely the Middle Ages.
Kashoggi was not a political opponent.
He was an opponent to the Saudi Prince’s existence.
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