Dear Silverleaf - you would have to believe a sovereign has the right to kill anyone who disagrees with him/her. I do not believe any one man/woman has that right. At the very least Khashoggi(sp?} deserved a trial, and though I think it would have been abhorrent to smuggle him from the Embassy to Saudi Arabia, to face trial there, and most likely eventual death anyway, it would have been more acceptable, and carried out in a more humane fashion. Evidently Khashoggi put undeserved faith in his homeland, and paid the ultimate price.
What makes you think he did not have a “trial”? a SAUDI system trial under Sharia or their justice code administered by the ruling tribe
You think they have a justice system like ours?
If they did maybe they would have just droned him
Obama and Brennan did to over 3000 people including US citizens abroad
with NO TRIAL
Saudi Arabia (and Turkey and Pakistan and the other Islamic Countries, China, and many Asian countries and many African countries) imprison torture and execute people every day
under SAUDI LAW and THEIR LAW
We may not like SAUDI LAW (heavily based on Sharia and ancient tribal and monarchic privilege) or other countries’ laws
but that's what it is
So please climb down off the high horse about why this one case deserves our wrath, breaking diplomatic relations with a strategic country whose foreign policies are complicated and treacherous BUT who have helped us and our allies in many cases, and WTH you think we have the right to DO about their law?
Last week and last month and last year a woman was probably stoned or beheaded for being raped, a thief was mutilated,a Chinese Falun Gong prisoner was shot in the head so his organs could be harvested, and homosexuals were tied together and thrown off buildings or hung from special cranes in Tehran
What did WE do about it? What did our media SAY about it?
Where in the world do WE interfere in other country laws and where do you draw a line?
“Acceptable and humane”
Boy are you being played
We don't even know what set off the SAG against this guy but we do know he was a subversive islamist al Qaeda sympathizer and bag man for many years.
No he was NOT an “American” nor was he a “journalist” because something he wrote was published in the WaPo or NYT. Under that standard Osama Bin laden was a “journalist”
Did you even notice how little we are now hearing about Iran and sanctions and the street revolutions there since MBS and by extension the entire SAG became bad guys?
What a coinky dink.
YOU are being played.
If you tears want to be jerked pay close attention to the justice system a work today in the country of our ally Turkey