Saudi Arabia's Missing Princes

The disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and his presumed murder is something we all need to see as evidence that the Saudi government is a ruthless monarchy and no friend to the United States. The only reason that both Trump and Kushner will defend and enable the monarchy of Saudi Arabia to get away with this murder is because they rely on Saudi money for their wealth. The Saudi Crown Prince commits murder, kidnapping, torture and pretty much whatever he wants to do with impunity because nobody will stand up to him and sanction this despotic monarchy.

It doesn't matter who you are to the Royal family, whether you're a brother, uncle or cousin. If someone disagrees or criticized the Crown Prince then they're time living on earth is limited. The U.S. cannot allow this despotic government to interfere with our government by buying off people with money.

"Saudi Arabia's Missing Princes"

You're joking, right? The house of Saud has about 15,000 princes and princesses. The wealth of the house of Saud is controlled by about 2,000 princes.

Do you think anybody gives a s*** if a couple of them go missing?

HumblePi said:

The disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and his presumed murder is something we all need to see as evidence that the Saudi government is a ruthless monarchy and no friend to the United States. The only reason that both Trump and Kushner will defend and enable the monarchy of Saudi Arabia to get away with this murder is because they rely on Saudi money for their wealth. The Saudi Crown Prince commits murder, kidnapping, torture and pretty much whatever he wants to do with impunity because nobody will stand up to him and sanction this despotic monarchy.

It doesn't matter who you are to the Royal family, whether you're a brother, uncle or cousin. If someone disagrees or criticized the Crown Prince then they're time living on earth is limited. The U.S. cannot allow this despotic government to interfere with our government by buying off people with money.

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This guy has shown a vast incompetence for the job this Crown Prince....he should probably go.....for sure if he sent guys who killed Jamal no matter what the orders were.

HumblePi said:

The disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and his presumed murder is something we all need to see as evidence that the Saudi government is a ruthless monarchy and no friend to the United States.

The only reason that both Trump and Kushner will defend and enable the monarchy of Saudi Arabia to get away with this murder is because they rely on Saudi money for their wealth. The Saudi Crown Prince commits murder, kidnapping, torture and pretty much whatever he wants to do with impunity because nobody will stand up to him and sanction this despotic monarchy.

It doesn't matter who you are to the Royal family, whether you're a brother, uncle or cousin. If someone disagrees or criticized the Crown Prince then they're time living on earth is limited. The U.S. cannot allow this despotic government to interfere with our government by buying off people with money.

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Red:
Agree:

Blue:
I don't know that the Khashoggi incident militates for thinking that. That's not to say I think Saudi Arabia is a friend, that is, a good friend, to the U.S., just that Khashoggi's abduction and murder doesn't strike me as indicating whether it is or isn't.

Were I asked what militates for thinking S.A. isn't a friend (good or "so so") to the U.S., the things I'd cite are:

• Nurturing Wahhabism.
• Taking no public responsibility for its role in catalyzing mindsets that led some 20 of its citizens to effect the 9/11 catastrophe.
• Failing to help attenuate the Israeli-Palestinian disagreement and allowing to foment within S.A. ever deeper animus toward Israel and not helping to imbue supporters of Palestinians to seek diplomatic rather than bellicose solutions to the disagreement.
• Construing the U.S. dissatisfaction with Iran as a tacit nihil obstat for waging a proxy war with Iran in Yemen.
• Failing to immediately tell the truth about the circumstances pertaining to Khashoggi.

Pink:
I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "the" reason, but there's no way it's "a key" reason, and one former POTUSes haven't had.


Tan:
"Despotic" and "monarchy" are redundant when the type of monarchy under discussion is an absolute monarchy, which is what S.A. has been for as long as it's been a monarchy. That said, the S.A. absolute monarchy is no better or worse than were the Western European, Ottoman and Far East Asian ones that came before them.

• The Princes in the Tower
  During the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI was murdered here in 1471 and, later, the children of his great rival Edward IV -- the Princes in the Tower -- vanished within its walls in 1483. In 1674, two skeletons were unearthed at the Tower. The bones were re-examined in 1933 and proved to be those of two boys aged about 12 and 10, exactly the same ages as the princes when they disappeared.
• Confirmed executions at the Tower of London

Make no mistake, those kings, queens and emperors were no different than S.A.'s heir apparent. Such is the nature of absolute monarchy.