3 Responses to “Senior officials agree”

• #1

  Blood Knight in Sour Armor

  December 19, 2018 at 7:48 pm

  Here’s an idea senior officials: just ignore bad orders.
• #2

  Omar

  December 20, 2018 at 1:28 am

  And there’s always Robert Fisk.

  We are all, alas, making the same old Middle East mistake: of thinking that the bad guys will get overthrown or punished for their murders and transgressions and that the good guys (whoever they may be) will come out on top.

  Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of murder most foul. But in the Middle East’s sectarian civil war, the Sunnis have got to win over the Shiites and the Saudis have got the money, and America’s president – for whom the epithet “insane” is now as irrelevant as it is obvious – has managed to quote the Saudis as claiming that Khashoggi was “an enemy of the people” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Even if his murder was “terrible” and “a horrible crime”. It could very well be, announced the leader of the free world this week, that bin Salman had knowledge of the murder. “Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”

  Saudi Arabia has 18% of the world’s proven oil reserves, and is run by a crime family, which family has Donald Trump appeasing it, apologising for it, and acting as global public relations chief for it. What could go wrong?

  https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-jamal-khashoggi-murder-saudi-arabia-muhammad-bin-salman-cia-syria-middle-east-wahhabism-a8646281.html
• #3

  PD

  December 20, 2018 at 12:14 pm

  What a load of histrionics. The US presence in Syria is probably illegal under international law and I notice they don’t say how leaving Syria will endanger a single American life. When they say it will “endanger the country”, they just mean it may slightly lessen US domination of the world.