From Pine View Farm

Silence Is Complicity 0

Dan Simpson is not amused with the United States’s passivity regarding the Khashoggi case and the Trump “administration’s” seeming wish that it all would just go away. Here’s a snippet from his column:

Saudi Arabia has always been a cross between a rich, hedonistic paradise for the ruling families and a humanitarian nightmare for everyone else. The minority Saudis live very well; most of the labor is performed by foreign workers from the poorer countries of the Middle East and South Asia. It used to be slaves from Africa. The level of cruelty practiced by the rulers was brutal, but largely unknown by the outside world. Every once in a while flashes of truth seeped out. One, in 1977, the execution of Princess Mishaal bint Fahd bin Mohammed for adultery became a scandal, but didn’t spill over into international policy toward the kingdom.

It used to be that the reliance of the world, including the United States, on Saudi oil served to give the kingdom a pass on humane behavior. In the case of the United States, there was also heavy U.S. oil company involvement in Saudi oil production. In the case of the United States, there was also heavy U.S. oil company involvement in Saudi oil production. U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia also became increasingly important to America over the years. . . .

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