Posted on 01/05/2016 7:34:44 PM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
One of the more darkly amusing aspects of the escalating tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia has been watching the Obama administration try to avoid directly condemning the Saudi execution of 47 people. Here’s the circular answer provided by White House spokesman Josh Earnest yesterday after he was asked whether the administration would condemn its ally:
Well, we have raised significant concerns about the human rights environment in Saudi Arabia. And carrying out mass executions I think is a prime example of a government that is not doing enough to address the legitimate concerns that have been expressed by the international community about the human rights situation inside their own country.
The State Department put out a report detailing the long list of concerns that the U.S. has with Saudi Arabia‘s human rights record, and certainly mass executions would rate highly in that list of concerns and we certainly would condemn any country that's carrying out mass executions.
Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally, obviously and unfortunately, and no one seriously expects the U.S. to take major diplomatic action over this, but these circumlocutions are still pretty glaring given how profoundly unhelpful these executions were, particularly when it comes to the ongoing Syria peace talks, a major U.S. diplomatic initiative. The statements stand in stark contrast to the more forthright condemnations coming out of European governments as well as the off-the-record grumblings of U.S. officials.
Saudi Arabia is far from the only government whose dismal human rights record is tolerated by the U.S. government. But rarely is the contrast so glaring between what officials will say in private—whether discussing the instability caused by the devastating Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, or Saudi donors‘ support for Sunni extremism—and how they talk and act in public.
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Why should we condemn them?
Heck, knowing 0bama is okay with the violent torture and executions of gays makes me break out the popcorn!
Because they’d laugh their asses off at the Kenyan and then we’d all be embarrassed?
The United States has never condemned Saudi Arabia.
Oil. Duh.
The Muslim faggot in the Spite House OWES them and they know it.
Because Saudi Arabia has infiltrated American politics and finance?
Why won’t more mosques attack Muzzies like this one?
http://iceagenow.info/17583-2/
A pile of snow fell from the roof of a mosque, burying people on the street below.
In the images, we see people helping those trapped under the snow. Two women were injured and needed medical care.
These dramatic moments were captured by surveillance cameras in a city in Turkey.Several regions in Turkey were faced with heavy snowfalls in recent days that closed schools and paralyzed air traffic.
We should tell the left that one of the people was Mumia
While I'm not exactly rushing to the defense of the Imam in Chief, why is it the business of the USA to get involved in a internal matter of the Saudi's version of justice? I can't remember where in our Constitution Saudi Arabia is mentioned.
Why can’t you leftist condemn Palestinian terrorism?
One Sunni does not condemn another, except for apostasy.
Of course the Saudis are despicable Muslim pigs like the rest. Stoning women, chopping off limbs, etc. But, you know, for years we were their alleys.
Yes, I hate to agree, but it’s all quite horrendous.
Why can't the US just condemn the nightly genocide of blacks by fellow blacks in the inner city?
Why can't the US just condemn the terrorist acts by the religion that shant be named?
Why can't the US just arrest, prosecute and execute the traitors in the White House and currently running for president?
Why indeed?
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