Ter wrote:One aspect bothers me a lot : the method of the murder.
Since when is a bullet to the back of the head not efficient enough ?
Saudi Arabia still chops people's hands off for theft. Their justice system seems like a crime to Westerners. So their crimes are going to seem particularly grisly too. Again, I don't understand why Jamal Khashoggi generates so much interest other than maybe he hung out with a bunch of establishment Democrats in DC.
Zagadka wrote:What is sad is that even this token resistance was prompted by a murder of one US-resident reporter, and not by the years of bombings and attacks, or anything else.
That's what makes it so weird. Besides, he was a reporter. It's not like fake news is held in high esteem these days. Reporters wanting sympathy for their own kind is one thing, but a school-boy chum of Osama bin Laden with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood seems like a bit of a stretch for a sympathy play.
One Degree wrote:Yes, this appears to be totally against our sensibilities. So, does similar things never happen in China or Iran? Are the same people insisting we break all ties with China? I seem to recall reports of possible mass killings of Muslims in Western China. We seem to still want to trade with them.
It is bizarre isn't it? There isn't a lot that's likeable about Jamal Khashoggi (or the rest of the press for that matter). We're supposed to cheer on ex-quarterbacks who lose 14 straight football games while protesting the national anthem and refuse lucrative NFL contracts looking for a greater payday to no avail and when they sign up to sell shoes made with Chinese child slave labor, we're supposed to applaud that as courageous. If the president puts tariffs on a power who disappears its political dissidents, were supposed to oppose the president. Yet, if a journalist who went to school with Osama bin Laden and has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood is critical of a medieval regime and gets killed by some actors within it, we're supposed to be upset? I'm still trying to understand why this one is so upsetting to the fake news.
One Degree wrote:This would have disappeared from the Western news in two days if it could not be used against Trump and Republicans in the upcoming election.
It's somewhat surprising it even makes the news. If Trump ordered him killed or something, that might be interesting. Yet, there is absolutely no evidence of this that I have heard.
Anyway, in view of all the other things the US tolerates, I find it odd that the media is so enamored of itself that it wants the rest of us to be too.
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