Posted on 10/24/2018 7:27:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Turned a blind eye to 9-11 too.
The Neocons are still trying to make this our problem.
16 of 19 of the 9/11 jihadists were Saudis.
Riyadh, Mecca and Medina should have been nuked on 9/12/2001.
Any, yeah, it's disgusting that our weapons are being used in Yemen.
Trixie should be ashamed!
It’s doubtful the crown prince had anything to do with the murder. He inherited a secret service that is imbued with Muslim culture and Muslim culture is brutal. It will be difficult to reform his clandestine services because what they did is okay by the Ninth century Koran. The ninth century is long gone and what happened is not okay by twenty-first century western standards. The prince is trying to update his kingdom for without the twenty-first century businesses it will fail. He knows this. His attempt to create a city shared with Egypt and Jordan where business and business people can operate like they were in Europe is an attempt to move Saudi Arabia into the modern age. But, it’s like updating a sword to somehow fire bullets. It’s going to be a tough transition. It won’t do us any good to lay this at his feet as he is our best hope of bringing Saudi Arabia into the western fold.
yes the neocons Bush and others did turn a blind eye to it.
This is not for Trump.
They are trying to take him down and start a war, so they can take him out.
Yet this neverTrumper would rather have had Hillary as president.
The Neocons are still trying to make this our problem.
Never Trumper Goldberg never misses a chance to take a shot at POTUS. He’d never in a million years write this with a Bushie in the WH. I was shocked to learn he makes $200,000 a year to write this garbage.
Now, the pain would be harder. But it has to be done.
Any, yeah, it’s disgusting that our weapons are being used in Yemen.
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Not by us. There is an entire Europe and Asia and Middle East that can do that. Not Trump. Not us. Not our people.
This drum is about Deep State and Neocons wanting power.
“bone saw to Istanbul”
Sounds like a good name for an 80s new wave song.
I don’t see how the assassination could benefit Saudi Arabia’s crown prince. He’s trying to get international money for large projects in his country. A conference of big investors just concluded in his country. Important investors didn’t come because of the assassination.
Therefore, I don’t think the assassination was something he wanted.
“The second message is that Saudi Arabia is our ally. This isn’t new, but the Trump administration has taken it to new, personalized extremes.”
BS, I have never seen Trump bowing at the waist to Saudis or promenading while holding hands with them like some former Presidents.
“The biggest mistake the Trump administration made in the Jamal Khashoggi case occurred while Khashoggi was still alive: letting Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, think he could get away with something so heinous — and so heinously stupid.”
Jonah Goldberg being Jonah Goldberg, that is, a never-Trumper and a repulsive prick.
Goldberg is a neocon war drummer
Plus his books.
Boy is doing well trying to hurt this country and its people.
Before his mother handed him his career on a silver platter, Jonah Goldberg was a wet-behind-the-ears nobody who used “like” three to five times EACH sentence.
He was worse than the most devotd high-school Valley Girl at a San Fernando Valley shopping mall.
You would have thought he was joking.
He regularly went on the radio doing it, too.
Why is the murder of a Muslim Brotherhood enabler/apologist/supporter any kind of “problem” for US?
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy based on tribal allegiances with a culture based on an almost biblical sense of honor. Most of the developed world cast off those forms in a series of bloody revolutions beginning in the late 18th century and wrapping up with unprecedented bloodletting of WWI. That's what was meant by the slogan "To make the world safe for democracy". The challenge for SA is to find a way to adapt to the 21st Century with a minimum of split blood. The alternative is much bloodier for them and the rest of the world.
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