Didn't realize that. That definitely makes it our business.
But it's also our business because countries don't murder someone in their embassy. It wasn't our embassy, but it is in our interest to strongly discourage that behavior. Just like it's in our interest to discourage Russia from killing people in Britain.
It's our business, because anytime the Press is suppressed, it's bad news for the world. Just wish we would get the DNC's claws off our own press.
I don't know if he was a good guy or a bad guy. There's an article that was just posted that says he was in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. He might have been a bad guy. But there's lots of bad guys in the press and we don't murder them, much less in our embassy.
On the other hand, the Saudi Prince seems to be bringing some positive reforms to Saudi Arabia. I say we stop short of trying to get him to step down.
“I don’t know if he was a good guy or a bad guy.”
Bad Guy.
He was de facto head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia, where he had most of his two million Twitter followers. He was recently setting up a network that he called DAWN (Democracy in the Arab World Now), dedicated to overthrowing the Saudi Monarchy.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s essential goal is to leverage democratic processes, and the vulnerabilities of Democratic societies to gain power. Once they gain power though, democracy is to be abandoned, and a permanent dictatorship with sharia law installed. Like President Erdogan in Turkey (currently the biggest State Sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood) says, “Democracy is like a train that you get off, when you get to your station.”
He has been a leading proponent within Saudi Arabia, that their oil wealth and National Intelligence capabilities be used to systematically subvert countries around the world to sharia-ruled dictatorships, under the guise of democratic revolts.
He was a very bad guy. Good riddance.
“I don’t know if he was a good guy or a bad guy.”
From the NY Times:
“Years later, after American commandos killed Bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, Mr. Khashoggi mourned his old acquaintance and what he had become.
“I collapsed crying a while ago, heartbroken for you Abu Abdullah,” Mr. Khashoggi wrote on Twitter, using Bin Laden’s nickname. “You were beautiful and brave in those beautiful days in Afghanistan”
The Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia (MBS) is rooting out the heart of the islamist infrastructure faster and deeper than we possibly could - because the very -center of gravity and main resources are Saudi Citizens and Government. Jamal Khashoggi was a big wheel in that movement.
We won’t have to spend billions and send tens of thousands of our young soldiers to fight with the young recruits of the islamist ringleaders, if the Saudis will chop up those ringleaders for us.