Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian citizen who worked for the Washington Post, was allegedly murdered by his government; murder is an unlawful killing and always wrong.The media is upset over the loss of one of their own, a star in the Washington cocktail circuit and a man who was an activist against his nation, a nation the media mostly disapproves of. Mr. Khashoggi allegedly was murdered in Turkey by Saudi agents.
So, what is the reason our government and news scribblers are so up in arms? Politics and the pending election have a lot to do with it.
The Saudi government is friendly to President Donald Trump and preparing to spend many billions on weapons, which will be used to counter Iran’s aggression in the region. The progressive line is that Iran is good, the Saudis bad.
President Barack Obama released billions in cash and bank transfers to the Iranian Islamic Republic, who purchased advanced weapons and used it to further their nuclear program creating an imbalance of power in the region. Iran’s direct involvement in Syria resulted.
Democide is the term used for governments murdering their own citizens; the history of democide is long and sordid. President Obama ordered the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior recruiter and motivator for terrorists; he was centrally involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. He became the first United States citizen to be assassinated by a U.S. drone strike without the rights of due process being afforded.
President Barack Obama ordered the strike that killed al-Awlaki and his son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen. Two weeks later, on Jan. 29, 2017, al-Awlaki’s 8-year-old daughter, Nawar Al-Awlaki, was killed in a U.S. attack in Yemen.
Governments targeting their own citizens for murder sadly happened daily around the world, so why has the death of Mr. Khashoggi gained so much outrage in our media, all our media, to include the left and a few right-leaning media sources? Some lives are more important than others, and the American media tell us the death of a reporter is more of an outrage than the murder of an “ordinary” person.
The initial media reports called Mr. al-Awaki an American citizen; then they said he held dual citizenship, then they said a permit work visa, then a Saudi citizen. The goal was to build anger by calling him an American citizen; after that no one cared about his legal status.Joseph Stalin was quoted as saying the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is just a number. Quite frankly it rubs me the wrong way to see so much outrage over Mr. Khashoggi’s murder, and 1,400 Americans being murdered in Chicago in 2016.
Those of us who served our country were prepared to risk our lives for an American citizen, but for a person who is not an American but a Saudi citizen and a member of the cocktails and hors d’oeuvre circuit of the Washington media self-proclaimed elite, not so much.
President Trump tossed a monkey wrench into the progressives’ plans to blame him for Mr. Khashoggi’s death by stating he disapproved of the murder and sending the Secretary of State to the region to investigate. The media will never give him credit for disarming his critics.
The billions of dollars of weapons ordered by the Saudis will be an enormous aid to our surging economy and a political gain for our President. A few progressives like Bill Maher, a man worth more than 100 million dollars, are openly yearning for a recession to damage President Trump, and if it hurts the “common” American, too bad. Got to love the compassion of the left. Mr. Maher has most of his millions sheltered against a bad economy; he will thrive you and I will suffer.
The truth is that socialism needs a bad economy and anger against our constitutional government to gain power.
OK, the Democrats are a bunch of rich people convincing poor people to vote for rich people by telling the poor people that other rich people are the reason they are poor –got it.
Most of the world was reporting Mr. Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate on October 19,2018, I am wondering how the word allegedly is used in his murder other than an attempt to undermine the reporting surrounding the circumstances of his death.
There are numerous web sites that give excellent chronologies of Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance including the multiple stories the Saudi government offered before admitting 18 of its citizens killed the journalist in their consulate on October 2, 2018. All one needs to do is Google “Khashoggi disappearance timeline.”
This isn’t about journalists in the US and around the world being mean to President Trump. When The President of The United States says on multiple occasions the news media is the “enemy of the people,” despots pay attention. It gives a tacit green light for members of the Saudi Royal family and leaders like Duterte of the Philippines that they can operate outside what used to be the US norms expected by our State Department.
The use of the term “democide” in the context used regarding the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki is disingenuous at best. The term was first used in 1994 was first an IU professor to describe pogroms, Armenian genocide by the Turks, Germany’s genocide of the Jewish and Romani population and more recently the Khmer Rouge massacre of political opponents in Cambodia.
President Obama ordered the drone attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki. That was done after it was found Anwar al-Awlaki, who was a militant Islamist who called for a jihad against the United States and had been active in encouraging terrorist activities, including being in contact Nidal malik Hasan.
Hasan is the US Army psychiatrist who brought a FN Five seven pistols fitted with 2 laser sights (one red, one green) and multiple magazines into a Fort Hood clinic on November 5, 2009 killed 13 US Army soldiers and wounded 32 more. I think Anwar al-Awlaki’s assassination by drone in Yemen was justified. Maybe you are more forgiving and don’t think an attack on US Army soldiers on a US base merits that kind of response. You and I differ on what constitutes an appropriate response. You also failed to note that Donald Trump was President on January 29, 2017 and he ordered the attack that killed Anwar al-Awlaki’s daughter.
The idea President Obama was soft on Iran when he approved their money to be returned to the Iranian government ignores the facts. Maybe you forgot, it was never the US government’s money. It was money seized by the US that was in US banks as payment for the purchase of military fighter jets and radar systems ordered by the Shah’s government that were never delivered. The money returned was the same amount that sat in US banks since 1978 without interest. The US didn’t send the Iranian government the jets and radar they ordered. It was never the US government’s money to give and there were no legal grounds to keep the money. Just because we don’t like a government doesn’t mean the US can acquire money without delivering goods according to contracts.
I cannot follow the floating numbers of how much US military hardware the Saudis have promised to buy, but do know to date the dollar totals of actual orders and jobs associated with those orders are more than 50% lower than the multiple numbers President Trump has talked about. I do know Saudi Crown Prince Salman creates a dilemma for whoever is President since he can make a decision and the price of oil can double. That will cause the world economy to slow to a snails pace.
No change from the Bushes protecting the Bin Ladin family. Trump and his son-in-law have something to lose. Millions.