![]() 10/16/2018 at 16:29 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Global politics inside.
10k+ dead in Yemen, and now this horrific Khashoggi murder...
And our president hypothesizes “rogue killers”. Unbelievable.
In the name of standing up to Iran, bin Salman launched a 2015 air war in Yemen that has cost more than 10,000 lives, and devastated what was already the poorest country in the Arab world. Of the 16,749 bombing runs recorded since 2015 by the Yemen Data Project, an independent human-rights monitoring group, nearly a third targeted nonmilitary sites. “You are waiting to die if you are here,” says Radhya Almutawakel of the Yemeni nonprofit Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, speaking by phone from Sana’a, the capital. The U.N. calls it “the worst man-made humanitarian disaster of our time.”
Bin Salman remains resolute. Although he told TIME he does not rule out sending ground troops, his priority is that the war remain painless for Saudis. “We want to be assured that whatever happens, the Saudi people shouldn’t feel it,” he says. “The economy shouldn’t be harmed or even feel it. So we are trying to be sure that we are far away from whatever escalation happens.” The White House so far is happy to play a supporting role in the Yemen war, providing intelligence, midair refueling and billions of dollars of munitions.
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Nope, ‘cause C.R.E.A.M.
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Hopefully! I’m more concerned about people the people who will don’t feel that way, and/or will be cool with hanging out with him going forward.
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It’s disgusting.
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And our president hypothesizes “rogue killers”. Unbelievable.
I don’t think Trump is smart enough to make such a hypothesis. I believe the Saudis suggested it during a phone call with Trump , and he ran with it. I’m not sure that man has ever had an original idea.
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Yeah, I could’ve worded that better to show he seems to be going along with it ... It could’ve been that fat guy in the basement who was doing the election hacking. Who knows?
I think he’s got plenty of ideas (all narcissists do) - they’re just all terrible.
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Americans won't care until a yemeni terrorist kills someone.
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Khashoggi was a legal permanent resident of the United States, Nicholas Burns said. “He’s a green card holder. He’s like lots of our relatives who first came to America who were in transition to become a citizen,” Burns said.
“We have an obligation to every American citizen, and we certainly have an obligation to green card holders to protect and defend them. ”
...and hold to account anyone who murders one of them.
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“It’s all about me, me, me. But enough about me. Let’s talk about you. What do you think about me?”
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I thought he was living in turkey
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Remember how this administration treated Puerto Rico.
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Completely unacceptable.
![]() 10/16/2018 at 22:50 |
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His fiancée was Turkish - not sure how long he’d been there prior to disappearing.
![]() 10/17/2018 at 11:16 |
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You know there was a pretty big terrorist attack against a US asset that was masterminded by a Yemeni and carried out in Yemen, right?
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didn’t hear about that either.
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It was a pretty big deal. Then 9/11 happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
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That would be too long ago to qualify then. I meant recently. getting involved overseas is all a fear and panic reaction.
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Shit, than we getter get out of Afghanistan and close up shop in Cuba!
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Status quo