Posted on 10/23/2018 2:59:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump on Tuesday referred to the Middle East as a "nasty part of the world" while addressing both the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and human rights abuses committed by Iran.
The president made the comments amid a growing crisis over the death of Khashoggi, who Turkish officials say was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier in October. His death has led to calls from Republicans and Democrats alike to condemn Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and end a $110 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
While discussing the crisis on Tuesday, he pointed to the various human rights abuses committed by Iran, a longtime foe of Saudi Arabia.
"And if you look at the other side, Iran, you look at what they've done to people, vicious, horrible," the president told reporters in the Oval Office.
"And that's no excuse for what happened with Saudi Arabia. No excuse whatsoever," Trump said, regarding Iran's human rights abuses. "But you take a look, it's a rough part of the world. It's a nasty place. It's a nasty part of the world."
"But if what happened happened and if the facts check out, then it's something that's very bad," Trump said, referring to the various reports of Khashoggi's murder.
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the problem is Islam, pure and simple
His statement just needs one clarification ... it’s not about the geography, it’s about the pathological cultures in that area.
Leftists say worse about THIS country
Hmmm ..., Islam ?
Let’s see:
Saudi Arabia - a royal dictatoprship
The Gulf States - self-declared shiekdoms that rule no
differently than a dictatorship
Iraq - an endangered “democracy” caught between internal sectarian violence, Iran and the Saudis.
Iran - a theocratic dictatorshipa
Syria - a dysfunctional state run by a dictatorship with big foreign influence by Iran and Russia.
Turkey - a country whose leader has recently achieved enough power to rule for the rest of his life.
Egypt - a dictatorship for decades.
Israel - the one REAL democracy.
So yes, the Middle East is HONESTLY a nasty place.
I am still in the dark as to why the MSM and Lindsay Graham and Rand Paul are having a hissy fit over the murder of Khashoggi.
In that part of the world, that kind of thing takes place daily.
There is not a thing the United States can do to change the behavior of the people in that part of the world.
And the righteous souls of the Turks are mortified by the murder? Really?
I tried to post this but FR says it should be posted to bloggers if at all, so I skipped it. It’s still interesting though.
Exactly Mr. President. A nasty part of the world, not a lot of good guys for us to rely on.
He is right.
The only “crisis” is in the minds of the Fake Media like The Hill.
He was not an American.
He was an Islamist.
Right now the Saudis are valuable allies.
The Turks are pigs.
Erdogan is an Islamist megalomaniac.
Enuff said!!!
ONLY ISRAEL.
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