The Khashoggi assassination is not only a story about Saudi tyranny. It is a story about the corruption of the American republic.
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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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He actually said "FAKE NEWS" was the enemy. You know, like this tweet?
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Cheered all your points except this one. These are the same journalists who promoted bin Salman as the great reformer and have virtually ignored Yemen. Trump hasn't helped but he's not singularly responsible for their lack of credibility.
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