[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I do not care if the rubbish he printed was anti-American, and Kashoggi was the best America hater on their staff, he is entitled to a paycheck and the ordinary protection of an employee of a paper from the violence of those who dislike what he wrote.

Using this logic, if Osama had written an article for NYT you would have been against him being taken out. Good to know.

I reject the notion entirely.

Then an investigation, including forensic exam of this alleged recording of his alleged murder, is in order.

Nope.

Not our monkey.

[Eleutheria5]

“Using this logic, if Osama had written an article for NYT you would have been against him being taken out. Good to know.”

You call this ‘logic’? Is it your contention that Kashoggi had committed overt acts of terrorism? All you have is that he liked terrorists and wrote nice things about them. In which case, using your ‘logic,’ we should be taking out half the editorial staff of the NYT, WaPo, and the Village Voice. Not that I like them, but people are allowed to express their dumbassed opinion under the Constitution.

“Then an investigation, including forensic exam of this alleged recording of his alleged murder, is in order.

Nope.

Not our monkey.”

Now this is scary. What America’s policy should be towards KSA is indeed America’s monkey. And how KSA treats dissidents is a necessary part of deciding America’s policy.

But that’s not what’s scary. What’s scary is that you are opposed to investigating. You remind me of those hollyweirdos who were writing how they believed Balsy-Fraud’s testimony before she even testified.

If there is one defining difference between the modern-day Right and Left, it’s narrative. The Left believes in narrative. They have a paradigm that determines their agenda, and their agenda determines what facts they believe in advance of, and if need be despite, any and all evidence.

The Right considers the evidence, and then decides what to believe. You don’t even want to examine the evidence. You dismiss the duty to investigate out of hand in advance of any investigation, saying ‘not our monkey’. In fact, you even assume that the only possible reaction to a putative investigation that incriminates KSA is war. In other words, you have your paradigm, your agenda, and therefore your narrative.

I’m for investigating, finding out what happened, and from that point deciding what action to take, which almost certainly would not be war. I am not convinced that this was KSA’s doing, considering the source was an Al Qaeda operative. Here we have a recording. It could be a forgery, but even then a forensic analysis would get us closer to finding out who really did it. But since you’re apparently the head of the CIA, and I’m a mere American ex-pat with an opinion, you decide according to the dictates of your narrative. Pay me no mind.