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| (Tom Toles, Washington Post) |
One year ago, Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered by a hit squad dispatched on the orders of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Evidence suggests the Saudis expected to dodge justice as Jamal’s case faded from memory. Initially, they stalled by denying any knowledge of Jamal’s whereabouts. When the international community still insisted on answers, they claimed Jamal was the victim of a “rogue" killing. Reports indicate that even months after the murder, Mohammed assured the plot’s ringleader that he would restore him to the royal inner circle as soon as the furor over Jamal’s death subsided.
Mohammed should expect to wait a long time. The world’s horror over Jamal’s murder won’t simply blow over, for many reasons...Brutal scumbag Crown Prince Mohammed bin "Bone Saw" Salman ordered Khashoggi's murder believing that the U.S. Government, under the amoral, corrupt, tiny hand of Donald "Rump" Trump would carry on as if nothing had happened. He was largely right. Although our intelligence community clearly put the blame for Khashoggi's murder on Bone Saw, arms deals needed to be concluded, oil needed to keep flowing, and business deals for Trump and his corrupt family needed to be made.
The Post concludes an editorial on the Khashoggi murder saying,
...[W]e believe history will show that our lost friend and colleague Jamal Khashoggi was on the right side of the debate that Mohammed bin Salman thought, mistakenly, he could win with a bone saw.It's a debate between freedom and tyranny that our own scumbag of a president also believes he can win, perhaps not with a bone saw, but with other tools just as vicious and deadly for our country.
