It was possible only because so many Americans have been on the Saudi take, choosing money over values every time. Lobbyists. Arms sellers. Politicians.
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It was possible only because the president of the United States has declared journalists enemies of the people, earning cheers from many Americans, giving aid and comfort to those tyrants who aspire to bone-saw journalists and their truths.
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It was possible only because foreign rulers now know that there is a vast political constituency in America for authoritarians and despots. They can tyrannize, and the American president will side with them and defend them to his public.
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It was possible only because of America‘s hypocritical relationship to Muslims. We‘ve been fighting a global war on terror for 17 years, bringing untold pain to millions of innocent Muslim lives, while we have treated the medieval Islamist theocracy of Saudi Arabia as an ally.
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It was possible only because America was against ISIS, unless ISIS happened to show up in the form of a nation-state named Saudi Arabia, in which case we were for ISIS.
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It was possible only because certain journalists and pundits, clamoring for access and counterintuitiveness, carried false tidings of reformist stirrings, when a medieval theocracy was still just a medieval theocracy.
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It was possible only because Saudi Arabia found in Silicon Valley, allegedly the world capital of idealistic companies, a reputation-laundering machine for its barbarism, beheading, and degradation of women.
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It was possible only because the Saudis had to know that we Americans hate each other so much that, even on this, we would become polarized; and some big faction would snap to their defense.
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This murder is ultimately a story about an American republic in which the truth doesn’t matter, money rules, and the love of liberty has given way to the tolerance and even the quiet admiration of tyranny.
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First of all they denied everything, he left the consulate,the surveillance cameras wasn't recording that time. Now they said he died during a fistfight, well then why they sent 15 agent with a bone saw hours after Khashoggi entered the consulate and then left back immediately
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You could substitute quite a few country names and still be accurate.
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US state turns a blind eye to Saudi extremism while putting sanctions on Iran... Double standards or favoring sunni Islam over Shia... Classic divide and rule
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This is brilliant Anand. Thank you.
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Stay safe Anand. The world needs your words.
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Yes but some people do not get this. They are still in the drunk stage while other people (such as myself) noticed the signs far earlier and these early noticers are loathing the inevitable hangover for we seen it coming.
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We thought America had a long history of supporting bloody dictatorships abroad.
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And the hypocrisy of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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