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Home Front: WoT
Forget Khashoggi, Where Were Our Elites When Obama Assassinated American Citizens?
2018-11-26
[Townhall] In the wake of Trump’s announcement this week that his administration would continue to "stand with Saudi Arabia" despite the recent murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, America’s mainstream media elites erupted in their usual paroxysms of despair and condemnation of the president. Although this time the typical "orange man bad" stories tended to omit calls for Trump to be immediately overthrown by the military or his own cabinet, almost every other major trope was preponderant.

This was especially true of Khashoggi’s former place of employment at the Post, where journalists almost universally portrayed Trump as having blood on his hands for his refusal to directly take action against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, now widely believed to have ordered Khashoggi’s murder.

Among the most vituperative critics of Trump in this regard was Post global opinions editor Karen Attiah, Khashoggi’s editor and self-described friend. In a column published on Tuesday entitled "Trump’s Defense of Khashoggi’s Saudi Murderers Will Stain Him (and America) Forever," Attiah told her readers that [emphasis mine]:
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Brown on brown seems to be no harm no foul in the leftist version of America and the world...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-26 16:07  

#7  It would have been OK if Obumble had done it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-11-26 15:25  

#6  Projecting their fears.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-11-26 07:47  

#5   Khashoggi’s editor and self-described friend

I'm sure Khashoggi wouldn't describe somebody black AND female this way.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-11-26 03:49  

#4  Khashoggi was just as bad as they were. A friend and supporter of Osama ben Laden, a propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas, an enemy of the United States and Saudi Arabia, the Saudi's had every right to whack him, if we had the right to whack the gentlemen you mention.
Only haters of the USA would like us to go after the most promising Saudi reformer to ever come along, so far.
Or does our treatment of Awlaki et al mean our former President should be banished from dealings with the rest of the human race.
Posted by: Daniel   2018-11-26 02:05  

#3  I'm almost afraid to ask, but what exactly does a Global Opinions editor do? (as someone said, if you can't explain what you do in a single declarative sentence, it's not a real job)

As for Kashoggi getting whacked, never have I heard of such a harsh and brutal injustice that I cared so little about. Not since the last time, anyway.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-11-26 01:05  

#2  I find myself unable to muster up any sympathy whatsoever for ay Americans killed as an act of war commanded, as is his Constitutional responsibility, by the president of the United States after the future deader joined a jihadi organization. I do not care whether he is an accidental American like Anwar al-Awlaki, a naturalized immigrant like Samir Khan, or a multigeneration American who converted to Islam, then ran off to be a jihadi tourist. As far as I’m concerned, once someone has has gone abroad to join a jihadi organization he (or, too often, she) has thrown away the privileges of treatment as an American citizen instead of as a spy. And spies, according to the Geneva Conventions, can be shot in sight.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-11-26 00:43  

#1  
Karen Attiah
Washington, D.C.
Global Opinions editor, writing on international affairs and social issues
Education: Northwestern University, BA in communication studies, minor in African Studies; Columbia University, master's in international affairs
Karen Attiah is the Global Opinions editor at The Washington Post, where she commissions and edits commentary on global issues from a variety of international writers. She joined The Post in 2014 as a digital producer in the Opinions section. Attiah often writes on issues relating to race, gender and international politics, with a special interest in Africa. Previously, she reported as a freelancer for the Associated Press while based in the Caribbean. Attiah was a Fulbright scholar to Ghana and holds a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University. She received her bachelor's degree in communication studies from Northwestern University.
Honors & Awards:
Fulbright fellow, 2008
Foreign languages spoken: Spanish

Posted by: 3dc   2018-11-26 00:38  

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