Posted on 10/19/2018 4:13:16 PM PDT by detective
Why has the media and much of the political establishment made the presumed murder of an Islamist Saudi dissident on Turkish soil a defining issue in American foreign policy?
Jamal Khashoggi is not a U.S. citizen, despite his past residence in Virginia, nor is he a lover of liberty, despite his criticism of Saudi Arabia’s despotic regime. He previously served that regime as a mouthpiece for, and adviser to, the alleged al-Qaeda-tied Saudi intelligence leader Turki bin Faisal. Khashoggi mourned the death of Osama bin Laden, whom Khashoggi had been granted unusual levels of access for numerous interviews. Khashoggi was also an ardent proponent of political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Needless to say, one wonders why Khashoggi was permitted to enter the United States and handed a column at The Washington Post given this background, particularly at a time our media claims acute sensitivity to foreign influence. One also wonders why so many in the media are quick to fawn over such a figure given his regressive views.
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They obviously don't give a Democrat's @ss about Saudi Arabia. It's all about the Washington Compost and the fake news media trying to create a firestorm about something, anything before the midterms. Too late, no one's buying.
Because leftists loved this Jew hating Muslim Brotherhood supporter. 15 out of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi, I didn’t see the left make a fuss about that, but something about this particular reporter makes them angry..its all about somehow blaming his death on President Trump..if there is a 0.5 percent chance it can be done they will do it
Why? Because Benghazi is much bigger.
Correct. We are just like SA. That is your point? We are just like them and evil? So Obama was right and we aren’t special and a great country?
Because Erdogan is in the mix? There is no circumstance under which we should trust that man.
Trump is forging a successful alliance with the Saudis to rid the world of the bigger problem of the mullahs in Iran. The media and foreign policy “establishment” can’t have that.
There are a whole lot of people who want Donald Trump to fail. There are people who are also trying to make America fail. Losing the Saudis would be a mistake and it is not the friends of America that want this to happen.
Saudi Arabia is a sovereign nation and Sen. Graham is wrong to demand that the Crown Prince be done away with. It is not his place. It is the place of the King to determine what happens in his country.
Our leaders need to make foreign policy decisions based on what is best for our nation. Sometimes we will be dealing with unpleasant people in order to avoid very bad things.
So you think anyone who lives in the US should get the same benefits as a citizen? What about the US citizens who were beaten within an inch of their lives right here on US soil by the Turks?
This guy was Muslim Brotherhood and n friend of the US.
BAE set to brave controversy by attending Saudi Arabia event
Financial Times-17 Oct. 2018
16 Oct: BBC: Simon Jack: BAE Systems will go to the Saudi ball
BAE Systems is one UK firm that will definitely not pull out of next week’s business conclave in Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom bought a sixth of everything the UK defence contractor sold last year and BAE employs 6,000 people on the ground there...
To be fair to BAE, selling military hardware is not a normal business. It is conducted with the express approval of the UK government...
The UK wants to have a national aerospace contractor like BAE - both for national security reasons and for the nearly 40,000 high-skilled, high-paying UK jobs it creates...
The infamous 1980s al-Yamamah series of arms sales to the Kingdom was described at the time by the Financial Times as the “biggest sale of anything by the UK to anyone”...
It was also well known that the French defence industry was sniffing around a new mega-contract at that time...
Therein lies the basis of much of the developed world’s arms industry approach to the vexed question of selling weapons to other countries.
If we don’t sell them, someone else will.
Donald Trump underlined that point this week...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45882301
It’s the post-McNoName CIA/MB shakedown cruise.
It’s not about benefits, it’s about power. This thing is much bigger than Khashoggi.
And not a Single word about their compadres in their beloved Mexico...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/world/americas/veracruz-mexico-reporters-killed.html
In Mexico, ‘It’s Easy to Kill a Journalist’
Mexico is one of the worst countries in the world to be a journalist today. At least 104 journalists have been murdered in this country since 2000, while 25 others have disappeared, presumed dead. On the list of the world’s deadliest places to be a reporter, Mexico falls between the war-torn nation of Afghanistan and the failed state of Somalia. Last year, 11 Mexican journalists were killed, the country’s highest tally this century.
The defining issue of US foreign policy?
Only in the minds of the NPCs.
I’m not sure if I get what you’re saying. I was trying to point out our government’s (and media’s) hypocrisy in this matter.
Best technique ever. Let him watch the news to see that everyone thinks he's already dead... Wow!
Khashoggi was a Terrorist backing, Muslim Brotherhood Scum. I hope his death was long and painful.
A very bad man is dead and Eric the Red, the Bitch and jOkeass are walking around breathing.
...one wonders why Khashoggi was permitted to enter the United States...
>>The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.<<
Absolutely true and every politically aware person on both the Left and the Right knows that. Of course the Left applauds it and the Right abhors it. But there is of course a third category, namely the enormous of people who, for whatever reason, stupidity, lack of critical thinking skills, lack of interest in matters they think do not affect them personally, have absolutely no clue that the MSM is a threat to them.
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