Posted on 12/12/2018 9:27:59 AM PST by jazusamo
With the chamber set to take up two competing measures denouncing Saudi Arabia and its crown prince, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday morning urged his colleagues to show restraint and embrace a more modest bill that would condemn Riyadh for the killing of a U.S. journalist but wouldn’t formally cut off all backing for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
Speaking on the Senate floor, Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, told fellow senators they should vote against a bipartisan bill that would end all U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Instead, he said lawmakers should back a more modest bill put forward by outgoing Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee.
Mr. Corker’s bill would formally declare Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “responsible” for the October murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a shocking slaying that drew global condemnation and called into question the decades-long Washington-Riyadh relationship.
The competing bills underscore the difficulty Washington has encountered in striking the right balance of holding Saudi Arabia — and the crown prince in particular — accountable for the unprecedented murder while not upending the sensitive and strategically important U.S.-Saudi relationship.
“Where Saudi Arabia is concerned, I think every single member of this body shares grave concerns about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and wants accountability,” Mr. McConnell said during his Senate floor speech. “We also want to preserve a 70-year partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia — and we want to ensure that it continues to serve American interests and stabilizes a dangerous and critical region.”
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Its all about bashing Trump. Has nothing to do with Khashoggi.
No one in the Senate gives a rat’s rear end about him. This isn’t about disapproving of an act that didn’t even occur on American soil.
Why all the faux outrage? Nothing the Senate does would bring Khashoggi back.
Well, they would likely benefit from a fact or two lol.
None of this benefits Americans.
No you are correct but there is a set of people here who are so filled with bile that they can’t see straight.
WRTT the President will veto anything questionable.
911 was a huge deal with world wide consequences.
January 8 can not come soon enough this year
The only problems I have with the Saudis offing a Muslim Brotherhood international arms dealer who supplies weapons to terrorists is that they did not use a leaf shredder and that they were dumb enough to get caught in the rare act of Saudi Arabians doing a positive service to the world
Amen, I hear you.
Abandoning Yemen is a victory for the Mullahs in Iran.
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