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December 03, 2018 04:13 PM UTC
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This is so sinister. Trump is literally trying to see if his ally can get away with murder. It's how Putin handles dissidents, opponents, and journalists. Prince Mohamed Bin Salman follows the same evil path.
Inconvenient people? Critics? Don’t argue, don’t defend. don’t bother with nasty tweets or mean nicknames or riling up your base against them. Just…. kill them. Have them quietly murdered.
The cynical side of this is that Trump is also trying to buy the American public's consent to this assassination by hawking the lower gas prices as an implicit part of “the deal” with the Saudis.
The Saudis have increased production and prices have plunged. I filled my little Chevy for $16 today.
Jamal Khashoggi was an advocate of freedom and democracy, the principles of the Arab Spring (Guardian 10/8/18)
Khashoggi criticized the Saudi regime for human rights abuses and for making a deal with Donald Trump on Abu Dis as the new capitol, (Kushner’s plan for Middle East peace, which throws out the idea of a two state solution and sets in stone the genocide of the Palestinians)
So in bin Salman’s mind, Khashoggi had to go. His dissenting voice could not be tolerated.
The price of oil is falling, and Saudi can’t raise it now because of the murder. So the question really is now if the American people will accept the murder of one Arab journalist – did Khashoggi die so we could have cheap gas?
How much more might oil prices fall if the American public could be brought to accept, say, the execution of some female dissidents? How many cents per gallon are their lives worth?
Cory Gardner's statement, quoted above, has more lofty sounding goals than Trump's crass appeal to American greed. He is invoking Middle East peace and stability. But there's no daylight between Trump and Gardner on this issue. Both accept state terrorism: blatant, bloody murders as a price for achieving political goals. I wonder how Cory Gardner talks to his children about morality these days.
No one should think Saudi Arabia is paradise. But America once joined hands with Joseph Stalin because survival required it. The survival of Israel, the war against Iranian – backed terrorism and the possibility of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement are among the issues at stake here.
We need to be very clear-headed in the coming months. NO, we don't condone the murder of a Saudi citizen. But we can't let this crime become another Sarajevo that triggers a war and thousands or even millions of casualties.
As for MJ’s bargain tank of gasoline, give credit where it’s due– to the hard working and creative workers of the American oil and gas industry. Keep on frackin’ baby, it’s given America our energy independence back.
Seeing bait…….keepin' on truckin'.
Yep, truckin in a truck powered by good old American gasoline. Keep on frackin' momma!
Fifty-percent of our current consumption (2017 numbers) is still thanks to imports from OPEC and Persian Gulf governments.
We produce 1.2 billion tonnes of agricultural waste every year that could be transformed into advanced biofuels, nearly eliminating those imports. Let's make American farmers the real energy producers in this country?