Khashoggi, Kushner, Trump

[Dill]

(11-28-2018, 02:35 PM)GMDino Wrote: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/28/mike-pompeo-blasts-lawmakers-over-jamal-khashoggis-murder-saudi-arabia-yemen/2136140002/

They are disgusting people....

Yeah, this bothers me a lot.  Fewer adults in the room now. More arsonists than firefighters.

SA was now supposed to step in as a "hard power" bulwark against Iranian expansion ("We don't need no stinkin' Iran Deal"), led by the assumption MbS would "modernize" SA and be all pro-American and in the region and tolerate Israel.

Now in the midst of a flagrant human rights violation involving a U.S. resident on foreign soil, the administration would foist an either/or on the U.S./international community, which can imagine a range of possible alternatives which preserve the SA-US relation without ignoring a horrific international crime.

Hard to tell if the limitation is internal to Bolton et al. (have they ALWAYS only been able to view Gulf conflict in simple either/or terms?), or a sign of more direct Trump control over policy.

“Is it any coincidence that the people using the Khashoggi murder as a cudgel against President Trump’s Saudi Arabia policy are the same people who supported Barack Obama’s rapprochement with Iran — a regime that has killed thousands worldwide, including hundreds of Americans, and brutalizes its own people?" Pompeo wrote.

"Where was this echo chamber, where were these avatars of human rights, when Mr. Obama gave the mullahs pallets of cash to carry out their work as the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism?"

Lol, They were thinking about some 15,000 of the mullahs' centrifuges and 98% of their enriched plutonium taken out by Obama, and how lifting sanctions would strengthen the Iranian middle class, moving it towards real democracy.