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2018-11-26 Home Front: WoT

Forget Khashoggi, Where Were Our Elites When Obama Assassinated American Citizens?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

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|| 2018-11-26 00:38|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-11-26 00:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-11-26 01:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-11-26 02:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-11-26 03:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Projecting their fears.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-26 07:47|| 2018-11-26 07:47|| Front Page Top

#7 It would have been OK if Obumble had done it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-11-26 15:25|| 2018-11-26 15:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2018-11-26 16:07|| Front Page Top

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