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It's so sad that the US president eats from Saudi Propaganda's hands, with Crown Prince Jared Kushner being close friends with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mb..., https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/world/middleeast/kushner-...) to the point of excluding professional US diplomats:

"The First Son-in-Law reportedly did not allow U.S. embassy staffers into his meeting with M.B.S." You'd think you want some of this stuff on record. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/jared-kushner-saudi-...

I guess bone-sawing errant journalists for WaPo is not a big deal for some.

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Why would it be a big deal for him? He's pretty much let it slip that he'd love to do the same to journalists he himself dislikes.

Correct, this isn't surprising considering the US president right now.

I'm sure it's a small deal, but the U.S. needs Saudi Arabia a lot more than it values the life of a single human being. I'd expect any of its leaders to rebuke the Saudis, but not to the point of losing then as an ally. That's logical, even if immoral. Putting the greater good above the good of individuals is the job of the state in a nutshell.

What is reprehensible here is Trump had not even gone so far as to offer a rebuke or a wrist slap here. That's unfortunate since it tells the Saudis they can continue to get away with this in the future.

People didn't like this comment, which I kind of expected, it would be nice if they stated why so we could have a discussion about the topic. I stand by it.

I'd also contrast with what Obama did when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter plane with the loss of a pilot, he didn't even offer the slightest of rebukes to Turkey, but rather slapped additional sanctions on Russia. Standing by allies right or wrong seems to be a bipartisan thing.

Odd choice of incident, given that half the point of NATO is to intercept Russian incursion into its airspace.

This is an absurd comparison. Turkey shot down a regional adversary's plane that violated their airspace. Obama didn't rebuke them for it because what Russia was doing there was supporting a regime he wanted gone.

Trump basically said he didn't rebuke the Saudis for it because they were negotiating a large sale of weapons. A cold blooded murder of a journalist due to what he said is completely different than shooting down an aircraft over your airspace after signaling that you'll do so and warning them to leave.

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