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 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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You are wrong here. Assad Iran Putin unleashed ISIS.
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Well, we (Obama administration) created ISIS to help destabilize Syria (with Libya's weapons) thanks to Hillary.
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