I don't like Saudi Arabia. You don't like Saudi Arabia. Now libs don't like Saudi Arabia? Is this something we can all agree on now? What to they think Trump is supposed to do?
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I don't see a need to get into a conflict with Saudi Arabia, but I've never understood why they've been considered an ally.
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The Khashoggi thing. He was a journalist, so his mistreatment matters to leftists.
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Sure, killing him sounds like a bad thing. Now what?
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Does it? He was a journalist. Speaking realistically journalists are political power players who have no access to force so they claim there's some rule that makes using force out of bounds. Apparently, KSA disagrees... and was proven correct.
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It's awfully uncouth to kill someone inside the consulate
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Saudi consulate is Saudi territory
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when were the libs not opposed to
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Hillary and Obama were pretty cozy with them, and they used the Saudis to help weaken Assad.
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My take is that I'm not too keen on the Saudis because they seem to be pushing/funding global Islam, and that naturally libs would tend to like them for that.
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I think it depends on the liberals in question. But Clinton and Obama's relationship with Saudi Arabia was a policy of the American state, not of the Democratic Party. Bush was like that and Trump started that way too. Saudi Arabia, so says the establishment of foreign policy, is
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an extremely important geopolitical ally of the United States. And the two parties basically follow the same foreign policy. Paleoconservatives, libertarians and anti-war leftists are all set aside as non-serious people. Regarding the regional conflict involving Assad,
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Saudi Arabia has its own interests in ensuring that Iran and its religious peers do not gain much more influence. Republicans have always been enthusiastic about the idea of removing Assad, so was Clinton to be fair, but not Obama. Anyway, the leftists I followed / follow always
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complain about the extreme authoritarianism and conservatism of the government of Saudi Arabia. They even say that opposing the State of Israel for their abuses does not make one a racist more than opposing the Saudi State for its abuses does. So it's a talking point on the left
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