Pro tip: if an essay about Saudi Arabia has a sentence like “this is not to suggest that the killing of Khashoggi is justified” in it, you can stop reading right then and there.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 19, 2018
To repeat myself: I don’t pretend to understand Saudi politics, but these All-American mooks…
Eric Trump on Fox: Are we just supposed to throw away our relationship with Saudi Arabia because they murdered a journalist?
"You can't be executing journalists … at the same time who are our friends in the ME, what are you going to do, take that and throw all of that away?" pic.twitter.com/KYrCter1wc
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) October 19, 2018
Had Osama bin Laden himself entered an American consulate to surrender, only to have his fingers chopped off, then to be decapitated and dumped into a meat grinder, I'd have a problem with it. https://t.co/Ie0UnX80rh
— Patrick Nonwhite (@NonWhiteHat) October 20, 2018
The positive articles about bin Salman seem bad now, but in fairness, how were grown adults living in 2018 supposed to know that absolute monarchies are bad?
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) October 19, 2018
Should our boys have their live's ruined because of an alleged fight that occurred 17 days ago? I won't even let my son go to an embassy with 15 friends and bone-saw anymore.
— Argle-Bargler (@ABargler) October 19, 2018
“Kashoggi’s killer was a rogue figure named Ben Ghazi.” – some Republican any minute now.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 19, 2018
They Like Journalists Who *Don’t* Get Murdered, Okay?Post + Comments (92)