Our Great allies the despotic Saudis kill a Washington Post Journalist.

Probably slipped his mind...

 

"no, you are more handsome"...

 

Unfortunately, Americans, Saudis, Israelis, and ISIS all hate Iran. Such miserable bedfellows.

 

Bipartisan bill to block weapon sales to Saudis... but trump and mcconnell will likely continue to support the murderous regime...

Foreign Relations Committee snubs Republican chairman [and trump] on Saudi Arabia

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/25/jim-risch-saudi-arabia-senate-foreign-relations-1435400

 

I was pointing out to a Trump supporter today who was going off about Muslims that Trump has already sold out to Islamic extremism. Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive regimes in the World and the Saudis are the biggest funders and exporters of Wahhabism. Saudis were behind Al Qaeda and there is plenty of evidence that Saudis helped to fund and arm ISIS. That doesn't stop Trump from favoring the Saudis, defending them, and supporting them in the war in Yemen even when in a rare show of bipartisanship Congressional Democrats and Republicans have opposed him on that. In return to extremely flattering treatment when he visited Saudi Arabia Saudis have spent lots of money patronizing Trump businesses.

In the last few decades Presidents of both parties have kowtowed to the Saudis and the US has been very hypocritical in regard to them. No President though has been so hostile in their rhetoric towards Islam yet support an extremist theocratic regime in action..

 

Just the leader of the country helping to get a murderer off...nothing to see here:

 

It took more than a year to release after it has been completed because the previous admin wanted to protect Prince Mohammed bin Salman. American first my a$$.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/biden-mbs-khashoggi.html?smid=url-share

Biden Won’t Penalize Saudi Crown Prince Over Khashoggi’s Killing, Fearing Relations Breach
The decision will disappoint the human rights community and members of his own party who complained during the Trump administration that the U.S. was failing to hold Mohammed bin Salman accountable.
By David E. Sanger
Feb. 26, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Biden has decided that the diplomatic cost of directly penalizing Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is too high, according to senior administration officials, despite a detailed American intelligence finding that he directly approved the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident and Washington Post columnist who was drugged and dismembered in October 2018.

The decision by Mr. Biden, who during the 2020 campaign called Saudi Arabia a “pariah” state with “no redeeming social value,” came after weeks of debate in which his newly formed national security team advised him that there was no way to formally bar the heir to the Saudi crown from entering the United States, or to weigh criminal charges against him, without breaching the relationship with one of America’s key Arab allies.

Officials said a consensus developed inside the White House that the cost of that breach, in Saudi cooperation on counterterrorism and in confronting Iran, was simply too high.

For Mr. Biden, the decision was a telling indication of how his more cautious instincts kicked in, as the responsibilities of managing a difficult ally led him to find ways other than going directly after Prince Mohammed to make Saudi Arabia pay a price.
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more at the link

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Maybe we shouldn’t be an ally with murderer? Jeez

 

if you want to know why we are hands off with the Saudis, here is your answer. They prop up the value of the dollar

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/petrodollars.asp

 

So you think it's a mistake for Biden to reverse Trump era policy in defending MBS and supportinh the war and man made famine in Yemen?

 

There is no point in explaining. There are those who really think their political party is trying to do the right thing.

Apparently there are those who are just now discovering the Saudi's Crown Prince approved of the assignation. There is a reason why we sell massive amounts of weapon systems to the Saudis and send them foreign aid.

There are those who still dont understand why the US invaded Iraq.

 

I'm saying the Saudi's have us by the balls because we rely on them to prop up our currency.

 

So you disagree with Biden's decisions here?

 

1. The point here is the Trump adminstration tried to hide this obvious fact. We all of course knew it. Are you being serious now?

2. Everyone knows why we support Saudi.

3. Do you disagree with Biden's reversal of Trump's policy in Saudi's war and blockade in Yemen?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55941588

 

What exactly do you want him to do?

 

I agree with his decision to end support for the blockade and war in Yemen.