Democrats have become quite muted in their criticism of Saudi Arabia, particularly over the death of political activist and writer Jamal Khashoggi, as President Joe Biden prepares to visit Riyadh in July and beg for oil from the kingdom he once promised to excommunicate from the civilized world. Obama Administration veteran Susan Rice, a major force in the Biden White House, seems to have lost her previously fervent interest in “punishing” the Saudis.
Human rights activists are grumbling about the sudden silence from Biden and his party. When Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia was announced, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard called it a “betrayal for Jamal Khashoggi, for Yemen, and a betrayal of what the Democratic party stood for over the last three years.”
“I have absolutely no doubt that Joe Biden will get nothing in terms of human rights protections and the visit will be seen as a full victory and endorsement of Saudi Arabia,” Callamard predicted.
These complaints are muted compared to the excoriation former President Donald Trump received for supporting the Saudi government after the murder of Khashoggi, who was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018, violently executed by a team of Saudi agents, and dismembered.
What will Taffyhead Joe do when they summarily
decide to slice his head off?
Do you feel safe going there
you FKN idiot?
Jamal Khashoggi was a “journalist” in the same vein as so many “journalists” throughout the Cold War. He was an agent operating with “journalist” credentials. About half of the Accredited Journalists in any conflict zone are spooks. When you get to NGOs, you’re closer to 60%; Almost like “diplomats”. Close to 70% of overseas State Department staff report to the Office of Special Services.
So don’t Crimea a river about a “Journalist” who got his comeuppance for being a spy. Everyone knows spys get whacked.
Can Turnip Joe bow as low as 0bama? Joe needs to bob his knob if he wants more oil!
The Saudis aren’t going to slice Taffyheads head off.
Regardless what such a display would be on the world
stage and most especially getting away with it
without even a whimper of retaliation.
The Saudis aren’t going to do it although
they’d love to.
They will probably find it more fortuitous to
humiliate Taffeyhead to the point of seeming
absolute surrender and begging for their
energy at ANY cost!
There are Russian and Ukrainian people whom I met in Moscow and Kiev (late 1990s), of whom I would trust more than Joe Biden and his Lackeys (including Saudi Arabians studying at the University of South Alabama in the 1980s).
The family of Saud is as two faced as they come. We should not be importing any of their oil. Slo Joe is a fuckup.
Was that journalist investigating the Clintons?
Khashoggi got more media attention than the Justice Kavanaugh assassination attempt.