Is there some reason America should care about some journalist killed abroad? I mean rationally.
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So it was a foreign national (with a U.S. green card) on Saudi sovereign territory? Eh.
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if a country has demonstrated its willingness to use embassy "sovereign territory" status to commit torture and murder, maybe they shouldn't be granted that territory in America perhaps.
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Maybe. I don't really see the relevance. Is there really any practical concern about a rash of killing & dismemberment in Saudi embassies hosted in the U.S.? (Wouldn't people just avoid those embassies?)
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probably the Saudi regime is embarrassed enough by this that they won't try it again and not in America in any case. there's no doubt they they would like to be able to though, if they weren't too fucking dumb to get away with it cleanly.
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seems foolish to rely upon a villain's own incompetence to keep them in check rather than dealing with their villainy directly.
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If they do something that impacts American interests, I say deal with them forcefully by deposing the royal family, killing every blood relative of them down to first degree, appropriating many of the countries' valuable assets, and demanding tribute for, say, a decade.
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they've already done lots of things impacting American interests. surely you're not unaware of their political influence campaign spending. you think they're lobbying for what's best for America?
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I'm pretty insulated from political news, actually. I vaguely recall various Saudi lobbying efforts, and yes, I oppose them, but I don't think a military response is warranted, if that's what you're proposing.
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it makes a statement about the way the Saudi regime reacts to minor irritants. How will they react when an American interest begins to irritate them?
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That seems like paranoid thinking. If a man swats a fly I don't have license to shoot him.
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your metaphor is broken. a human was murdered, he wasn't a fly and his moral status is not that of an insect.
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You're the one who used the metaphor of a "minor irritant" (fly). And yes, I'm sure God loves all his children, but I thought we were talking about international policy.
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humans irritate other humans all the time. you applied the dehumanization here. maybe think on that.
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Thanks for the sermon.
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correction, his fiance is Turkish and he was visiting the embassy to update his marital status, include his nationality.
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