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There is an outstanding amount of evidence that a group of Saudi Arabia government agents tortured and murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey when Mr. Khashoggi went to the embassy to get paperwork to complete his divorce so he could remarry. Mr. Khashoggi was a great and widely beloved human being who tried to use journalism to stop governmental wrong's occurring in his home country of Saudi Arabia! It is despicable and justifiably stokes great rage in the international community when they hear what happened to this good man and the big question now arises what should the American government do about it because American politicians are threatening a major response. There is a myriad of options the American government could choose from one just extreme which would be to use the audio tape of the crime to identify one of the perpetrators and use our intelligence service to hire a hit man to take that perpetrator out, but, that is not the way a good country acts a good country respects the rule of law and doesn't take justice in their own hands in this way.
The American people need to definitely remember that the country of Saudi Arabia has been a great friend to America over the past forty plus years. People may dispute the following contention but they would absolutely wrong that being that the Saudi Arabia government has been a great friend to America and the West over this time period in moderating the price of oil, they have been a restraining force in OPEC being responsible for protecting America and Worldwide economies from the destabilization that can result from energy prices. In addition, over the decades they have been a great ally in America's fight against radical Islamic terrorism and the grave threat to our culture this movement poses! Further, Saudi Arabia is in a vital war for America'a interests in Yemen, its neighbor, if the Saudi's and its allies lose that means Iran and its allies win that is the country of Iran which would relish the demise of America!
The problem with Saudi Arabia seems to be with the second most powerful figure in the Kingdom, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Although he is right on the economics for Saudi Arabia that the age of oil is coming to an end and Saudi Arabia needs to be outstanding aggressive about pivoting its economy away from oil especially toward manufacturing more of what they consume, his record on human rights is somewhat troubling. Back in 2017 he was behind the arrest of a group of wealthy Saudis based on trumped up charges resulting in the Saudi government extorting $100 billion from those arrested. What really needs to take place is King Salman of Saudi Arabia needs to put a system in place consisting of one or maybe a small tribunal of Saudis to act as a check on the young Crown Prince involving anything that involve the Saudi government significantly harming human rights.
In any event, America over the Mr. Khashoggi matter should refrain from doing anything that significantly harms Saudi Arabia from a security or economic standpoint. The perpetrators of this crime probably had diplomatic immunity because they were considered personnel legitimately working at the Saudi embassy in Turkey. Since Saudi Arabia abused this privilege of legal protections of embassy personnel America's response should be that for four years for Saudi embassies throughout America diplomatic visas will be restricted, that is, the Saudi Arabian government will have to justify those visas they will not be extended to Saudi's in the intelligence services or that present a suspicious reason for their coming to America!
The American people need to definitely remember that the country of Saudi Arabia has been a great friend to America over the past forty plus years. People may dispute the following contention but they would absolutely wrong that being that the Saudi Arabia government has been a great friend to America and the West over this time period in moderating the price of oil, they have been a restraining force in OPEC being responsible for protecting America and Worldwide economies from the destabilization that can result from energy prices. In addition, over the decades they have been a great ally in America's fight against radical Islamic terrorism and the grave threat to our culture this movement poses! Further, Saudi Arabia is in a vital war for America'a interests in Yemen, its neighbor, if the Saudi's and its allies lose that means Iran and its allies win that is the country of Iran which would relish the demise of America!
The problem with Saudi Arabia seems to be with the second most powerful figure in the Kingdom, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Although he is right on the economics for Saudi Arabia that the age of oil is coming to an end and Saudi Arabia needs to be outstanding aggressive about pivoting its economy away from oil especially toward manufacturing more of what they consume, his record on human rights is somewhat troubling. Back in 2017 he was behind the arrest of a group of wealthy Saudis based on trumped up charges resulting in the Saudi government extorting $100 billion from those arrested. What really needs to take place is King Salman of Saudi Arabia needs to put a system in place consisting of one or maybe a small tribunal of Saudis to act as a check on the young Crown Prince involving anything that involve the Saudi government significantly harming human rights.
In any event, America over the Mr. Khashoggi matter should refrain from doing anything that significantly harms Saudi Arabia from a security or economic standpoint. The perpetrators of this crime probably had diplomatic immunity because they were considered personnel legitimately working at the Saudi embassy in Turkey. Since Saudi Arabia abused this privilege of legal protections of embassy personnel America's response should be that for four years for Saudi embassies throughout America diplomatic visas will be restricted, that is, the Saudi Arabian government will have to justify those visas they will not be extended to Saudi's in the intelligence services or that present a suspicious reason for their coming to America!