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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
You seem very eager to excuse this likely murder. The US has arrested American who spied for Israel. We didn’t chop them up into little pieces. Everyone should be outraged if this is what the Saudis did. That includes you. [/quote]

When did KSA promise to behave exactly like America?

On the outrage, leaving aside the very curious attempt to dictate the feelings to perfect strangers...Khashoggi excused the regime chopping the heads of its opponents who called for political reforms inside the country.  Now I am supposed to weep when HE got chopped up? Who kissed the royal bottom for years? Who ate from the hands of Al-Saud all his life? What's up with the clumsy attempt to package him as a lifelong reformer, instead of a lifelong government loyalist who either bet on the wrong prince or got too big for his britches?

Lie with the dogs, wake up with fleas. [/quote]

Most Americans oppose the death penalty for expressing views, regardless of how horrendous those views may be. I'm sorry that you are in the minority that believes otherwise.

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Most Saudis probably don’t.  Geez, Jeff, how Eurocentric and imperialistic for you to impose your white American values on a totally different culture!  I thought you were a liberal  :lol: [/quote]

I'm happy to impose the value of free expression on anyone. But more to the point, I am an American posting on a website whose audience is 99 percent American. Khashoggi was a US resident and the US has an interest in his fate. I'm surprised to find Saudi apologists here.
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I'm not surprised at all given that SA is a rich country and people tend to idolize that. Also, Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia are all going to become a lot more popular as the world pulls away from human rights. New technologies are making it easier to marginalize groups and track dissidents while making unifying messaging more difficult. [/quote]

Saudi has significant fiscal problems. I'm not sure if there are that many people beyond fundamentalist Muslims who idolize Saudi. It's not even well respected in the other Gulf countries, even among its traditional allies. [/quote]

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