LOL the more words you type the sadder it is. He was educated in an American university, and lived in America, and worked in American journalism. Writing tons and tons to try and delude yourself away from the truth is what it is. Excuses, excuses, excuses. As you said, if Saudi Arabia had assassinated an American citizen proper, well, that's tough to ignore. No doubt, we would try to ignore it as we tried to ignore this, but at the end if the day, there is no getting around the obvious. It's just trying to put lipstick on a hog. This was an abomination and a direct assault on us, and we had to just take it. President Trump was made to look pathetic.
But as you say, that's where we are. Which is why we should be advocating getting out of that position instead of whining every other year about how people won't sell us gas on the cheap whenever we want it.
Him being educated in an American university when he was in his 20s, again, means absolutely nothing. Wealthy foreign nationals go to universities outside their home country all of the time. That does not mean anything nor make them citizens of the countries they attended university in. Again- was Osama Bin Laden a UK citizen because he studied at Oxford? No. Dude lived in America for a whopping year of his 59 year long life. Totally makes him an American. Not.
Saudis did a gruesome, disgusting thing to
one of their own citizens. No doubt it was disgusting. But they
routinely do things like this and much worse to
their own citizens. They publicly beheaded and crucified a 17 year old kid all for the crime of speaking out against the dictatorship and attending a protest. They just publicly slaughtered 81 people a couple days ago and not a peep.
It was not a direct attack or assault on us. That is
beyond laughable to even say that. It would be a direct assault on US if say, they kidnapped and slaughtered say Jake Tapper or any
AMERICAN journalist. But of course, they would never do this. Because they only go after their own. They aren't going to go after Americans. Would never happen. They just don't do that. They brutalize and murder their own just for breakfast and 99.999999% of the time most here don't seem to give a rats ass. Now everyone pretends to be all shocked they did this to
one of their own citizens and pretends to give a shit just because the guy lived in America for a year and worked at the Washington Post for 6 months. Puhhhleeeease.
Trump wasn't made to look like anything. Trump kept things transactional. He didn't purposely try to piss off and alienate the leader of the Sauids. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Trump
bragged about providing political cover for MbS and shielding him from blowback in US. Trump literally did not even care. Why? Because Jamal Khoshoggi wasn't an American. He was a
Saudi. Trump
correctly calculated- not our business- what they do to their own people- is their business. Saudis have been doing this kind of shit forever to their own people. Why
pretend to care now?
Has nothing to do about selling us gas. They don't sell us much gas. Or crude oil. However, they are the worlds largest exporter of oil, the worlds low cost-high volume producer of oil, are the most powerful/influential member with most control of OPEC (which produces over 40% of worlds oil, and produces over 60% of worlds oil exports), and have exclusively denominated their oil in US dollars- and then recycle said profits from their oil trade into US real estate, businesses, and US treasuries. And because of this they can wield massive influence over the price of oil, inflation, and strength of the US dollar.
