Is there some reason America should care about some journalist killed abroad? I mean rationally.
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they're a cartoonishly evil regime and the only reason we deal with them is because of oil. our military bases in KSA are the most significant reason Al Qaeda turned on America in the first place. our entanglements there have already done tremendous damage.
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It seems we're substantively in agreement, but that none of your beliefs are really precipitated by the recent journalist slaying as such.
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it hasn't changed my prior opinion, which was already that Saudi Arabia should be considered an enemy nation. this does reinforce my views though.
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Just so.
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the murder of Kasshogi is definitely substantive cause to eject the Saudi embassy from the United States though. this won't be done, but I think it ought to be.
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Haven't we hustled a bunch of SA citizens who were on U.S. soil to Guantanamo or Gitmo to be tortured?
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yes, and we shouldn't have, but in their cases they were at least accused of terrorism or were military combatants. the U.S. is deeply hypocritical, but we're the hegemon so we get to be.
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i'm uncertain how many Gitmo detainees were apprehended actually on U.S. soil though. maybe non-zero, but my recollection (grain of salt here) is that the majority were captured in Afghanistan.
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