Who said ANYTHING about going to WAR? Yeah. WaPo should screen their employees more carefully. Maybe the CIA and FBI should investigate WaPo’s hiring practices...no, wait. They hire lots of former intelligence operatives, too.
But a journalist working for an American paper on a story should be safe from being murdered and dismembered when he enters his own country’s embassy. That’s a pretty good principle.
So you impose sanctions of some sort or another. There’s a lot that can be done short of war, especially since the US no longer needs Saudi oil. So how about imposing tariffs on petrolium-based imports from KSA, including crude, plastic, and sweet crude. Trump would like that. You can still do the big arms deal with them, and you punished them for murdering a journalist, IF KSA was the one who actually did it. End of story. No war.
He wasn't working on a story. And I do not care if he occasionally wrote an anti-american screed that was lovingly printed by Bezos and co. That does not entitle him to anything but a paycheck from them.
Not our monkey.
In any case he was there on his own private business. And sorry but I tend not to believe any of the stories about this floated by the MB and their pals in Turkey.
I am not even convinced that the alleged victim is actually dead.
That’s a pretty good principle.
There is no principle!
You keep on making up stuff that did not happen. Why on earth do you keep wanting to drag us into this fairy tale?
Of all the things in the world to cause an issue with the Saudis this has got to be one of the lamest I have ever heard.