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Khashoggi has been aligned with the old guard of the Royal Family, since forever.
He was highly critical of the new guard while living in SA and the US.
No shortage of ways to silence this journalist without it turning into an international incident.
It’s possible the old guard portion of the Royal Kingdom is responsible for the murder of the journalist knowing, the new guard would be held responsible and removed from power.
Whomever is responsible intended for this to be an international spectacle. Why?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they could have killed him anywhere. Why the international incident? Who gains from this?
Wasn't he killed in a Saudi consulate? If so, that is considered Saudi country and they would have chose that site to prevent being held to laws of another country.
If the plan was just to eliminate Khashoggi couldn't they have simplified things? An old school Mafia hit and run. Gunshot to the head say on a public street. Driver and getaway car. Shooter out of the country in a matter of hours and back to Saudi.
38 pages in this thread - 12 days and STILL not a single piece of Evidence of anything at all.
Perhaps Secretary Pompeo can get these Turks to show him the Evidence.
Few people had ever heard of Khashoggi, who is a Saudi Citizen -- isn't it interesting that there is all this American Hair on Fire about a person nobody ever heard of, a person who isn't even a US Citizen, a person whose disappearance is about to break up alliances between important Nations and could actually start wars over it.
I wonder WHY. I also have to ask -- WHO gains from all this? Who is promoting this story and WHO are the allies of those promoting this story??
Good News is ...... Pompeo knows what he is doing. He's not just the US Secretary of State, he was also the US Director of the CIA.
Why are people so accepting that we have a President who appears to love depots and dictators, and who in this case is setting the stage to help the Saudi's lie through their teeth about the state sanctioned murder of journalist Khashoggi?
Your ignorance is showing.
All US Presidents since James Knox Polk have supported dictators and despots, and many have actually installed dictators to rule.
As long as the US benefits from the dictator or despot, it's no problem. It's only when they stray from the path that the US gets riled up and has them murdered or overthrown.
Truman, a Democrat, overthrew the Greek government and installed a despot. Then almost 20 years later, LBJ, another Democrat, overthrew the Greek government and installed a military dictatorship.
All of your Presidents since Polk supported dictators in Central and South America, China, the Philippines, and the Middle East, so long as they didn't tax US corporations, or try to nationalize industries or like President Arbenz of Guatemala, try to compete against US corporations.
So quit acting like Trump is the only one.
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Originally Posted by boneyard1962
The UN is there for a reason, let them do their job, let the world body decide what needs to be done.
You don't even know what the UN is. The UN General Assembly has zero power. All power is vested in the UN Security Council, and unless the UN Security Council specifically invokes Chapter VII, a UN Security Council Resolution is totally worthless, having no weight or affect and is unenforceable under international law.
So, if you're expecting the UN to do something, that's just not going to happen.
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Originally Posted by boneyard1962
What I want is for the USA to learn to mind our own business and let the UN do it's job. WE need to stop playing world cop.
You can't handle the consequences of that.
I can easily tolerate a Standard of Living equivalent to the late 1960s or early 1970s, but you and 90% of Americans cannot. You all would be throwing temper tantrums.
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