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Nobody but nobody can kiss dictators, despots and maniacs asses like the current Prez. He truly is setting a bar that will be near impossible to clear in brown nosing the most despicable rulers in the world. Makes me proud to be a merican. #winning
Nobody but nobody can kiss dictators, despots and maniacs asses like the current Prez. He truly is setting a bar that will be near impossible to clear in brown nosing the most despicable rulers in the world. Makes me proud to be a merican. #winning
Had they murdered Kadaffi under Trump they would have framed one of Trump's newest peace brokerage recipients for it.
Tenpoundbass saysHad they murdered Kadaffi under Trump they would have framed one of Trump's newest peace brokerage recipients for it.
Yeah, funny how Ghaddafyi was grovelling at our feet, paid for all his terror, did everything we asked of him.
And then Hillary-Obama had him executed in the most cruel fashion.
The strategy always was to bring democracy to the Islamic world. Very foolish strategy, as no Muslim country is ready for democracy. Given a chance, they end up voting to replace democracy with Islam, leading to Islamic radicals taking control. It happens every time, putting us back to square one.
Khashoggi the “reformer”
Jamal Khashoggi was never a reformer in the sense that he wanted to advance individual rights and overall freedoms in the Middle East. In fact, all of the evidence points to the reality that he was a regressive thinker and a dedicated Islamist who wanted to move Saudi Arabia to a more cleric-led society.
As an early ally to al Qaeda founders Osama Bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam, Khashoggi has been an Islamist for decades. While he may have disagreed with his old friend Bin Laden about how to impose an Islamic state on the world, the two shared the same endgame.
While Bin Laden preferred a much more aggressive strategy, Khashoggi appeared to be a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood model of governance advanced by groups like Hamas and the short-lived Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt.
Both Hamas and the Morsi regime in Egypt were elected through the democratic process. Yet almost immediately after seizing power, the Brotherhood-aligned groups sought to impose extra-constitutional measures that would tighten their grip on power and ensure that there would never be another election.
Khashoggi’s “democracy” project is nothing more than a facade that would allow for the empowerment of Islamist actors. For the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, history shows us that their first victorious election campaign quickly becomes the last election.
Khashoggi the “man of peace”
Today’s Middle East reform movements are largely backed by individuals and leaders who have rejected calls for perpetual Islamist warfare. Those in the U.S.-allied reformer camp — such as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, and UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed — have preferred to focus on bolstering patriotism, combatting Islamism, pursuing secularization and modernization, and encouraging foreign and domestic entrepreneurism and investments.
The “soft-spoken” Khashoggi, on the other hand, has sought to drag the Islamic world into endless conflict.
And as is typical for many Islamists, Jamal Khashoggi had a serious bloodlust when it came to violence against the state of Israel. He expressed these violent aims in a 2014 piece for the Muslim Brotherhood-tied Middle East Monitor, in which he wrote that he hoped one day Islamic nations would join the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas in its campaign to destroy Israel. In another piece he wrote that year, Khashoggi shamed Arab states for not supporting the jihadi terror group.
The strategy always was to bring democracy to the Islamic world. Very foolish strategy,
Amazing, the Press has loved Saudi Arabia, seldom criticized it no matter how many witches and gays they hanged, but the moment the ruler starts letting women drive and allowing them to attend sporting events and distancing himself from Political Islam, the press is mad - because somebody (maybe him, maybe not) killed a friend of Osama bin Laden and a Muslim Brotherhood member.
lol-- let's be clear here. The leader of Saudi Arabia tortured and murdered a journalist that was spreading the truth about his regime.
That's what happened. MBS didn't like someone piercing the narrative of "reform" in Saudi Arabia so he had him executed. period.
Why all the fuss, now?
lol-- let's be clear here. The leader of Saudi Arabia tortured and murdered a journalist that was spreading the truth about his regime.
There should always be fuss if a supposed ally murders a journalist.
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