How dare
President Trump “condone” the murder of a Saudi citizen by his government! The only rational response is to drop Saudi
Arabia as an ally, impeach Trump, and re-install the wonderful treaty with Iran,
maybe adding a few more pallets of cash in the deal.
These
are apparently the objectives behind the massive outrage exploding from the
American left, as well as some establishment Republicans in Congress.
Trump’s official statement on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi,
begins with “The world is a very dangerous place!” and concludes “As President of the United States I
intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its
national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm.
Very simply it is called America First!”
This statement has caused firestorms in the op-ed
pages of the New York Times
and the Washington Post, which issued this Tweet:
Now the calls for impeachment
are being heard over Trump’s supposedly-weak reaction to the incident. I believe this makes the 1,393rd reason
to impeach Trump, right after the treasonous way he ties his shoes in the
morning.
We are supposed to be outraged over a supposed
“state-sponsored” murder, based on supposed evidence from the always-reliable
CIA. After all, the pals of
former communist John Brennan wouldn’t lie to us for political advantage, would
they? We should trust the CIA
implicitly, since they were only caught one other time in a blatant lie,
successfully influencing US policy by falsely claiming that Iran had abandoned their
nuke program.
I guess those who are screaming for Trump’s
impeachment over the Saudi government’s alleged murder of one of its own
citizens have conveniently forgotten something in our recent past. Were they this upset over the Obama
administration for murdering three US citizens (including a 16 year-old) by
targeting them in drone strikes?
Yes, they were probably bad people, possible
terrorists living in Yemen working against American interests. But I’m sure the Saudi government viewed
Khashoggi as a threat in much the same way.
In all of these assassinations, the victims were denied their right to a
trial and due process as citizens.
The Khashoggi assassination was gruesome and
messy. The US drone strike assassinations
were much cleaner and left no witnesses.
However, they were morally no different.
Actually, the drone strikes were much worse, because they resulted in
significant collateral damage, killing others who were possibly innocent
victims.
This is all so dishonest and hypocritical. Did the WaPo call out Obama’s “failure of
leadership”? Did they cry for “the cause
of truth and justice and human rights” when US citizens were murdered by their
government without a trial?
Is there that much ignorance bordering on
insanity in leftist politics and the media?
Or is it really a cold, calculated effort to influence the public in
order to weaken Trump’s agenda and gain power for the left?
Andrew
Thomas
As published in American Thinker
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