Jamal Khashoggi is best understood not as a man, but a foreign information operation purposed with undermining Saudi Arabia and realigning American relations in the Middle East.
Jamal Khashoggi was to the climate change/anti-fossil fuel activists and Middle East disruptors/extremists...what saint George Floyd is to the race baiters and just about every leftist agenda item, in America.
The left always crowns it's saints and saviors, with little/no honesty or transparency. All that's needed is an event (preferably filmed, for re-broadcast every 5 minutes) and then a false narrative. After that, all the groups gathered under the leftist umbrella of influence and benefit, will take up the call and solidify the saintly "victim" into the societal cannon, never to be removed or maligned.
Great job keeping us up to date. I’m leaning less and less towards an organized and effective “New World Order” being responsible for all this BS in the West ( although that is certainly being tried) and more and more towards confusion, stupidity, incompetence, and corruption as being the cause.
I'm glad you're posting this, but don't go overboard and under the waves for MBS. Brutal thugs have their nice pet projects too, and this guy isn't stupid. Ruthless and farsighted. But not anyone to admire, except in a sort of distant academic manner, for the way he uses his natural gifts.
This piece is reminiscent of joint US-Saudi propaganda. Don't the Saudis still publicly behead women for adultery? Doesn't the House of Saud rule by absolute monarchy? If MBS were really that modern and liberal, he could do a lot to end the suffering of women, yet he doesn't. Also, are you trying to justify extrajudicial killings and dismemberments of people for crimes in general, if indeed Khashoggi is guilty of what you allege? If so, then, you have quite a lot in common with MBS. It's no surprise you're defending him.
Controversial and fascinating. So, JK equals bad. Got it. What does luring him to a CONSULATE...and torturing, beheading and dissassembling his corpse equal? OH! Wait! ...of course. U.S. Ally equals good... you must have a new, digital moral compass, the adjustable one...
I actually had no idea about Khashoggi's real background, and I make a solid effort to keep abreast of at least the "need-to-know" elements of the media's various government-supplied bullshit narratives. Thanks for this.
You are one of the few writers who cogently slays sacred cows in multiple fields. Well played sir.
Two Thumbs up Jordan!
Jamal Khashoggi was to the climate change/anti-fossil fuel activists and Middle East disruptors/extremists...what saint George Floyd is to the race baiters and just about every leftist agenda item, in America.
The left always crowns it's saints and saviors, with little/no honesty or transparency. All that's needed is an event (preferably filmed, for re-broadcast every 5 minutes) and then a false narrative. After that, all the groups gathered under the leftist umbrella of influence and benefit, will take up the call and solidify the saintly "victim" into the societal cannon, never to be removed or maligned.
Jordan, thanks for this article. I was unaware of this until now and I very much appreciate your writing.
Well said, Sir. And spot on.
Yes, Washington Post was providing cover, press credentials, and access for a Jihadist.
Thank you, Mr. Bezos.
time to free Julian Assange.
Some of this came out at the time of his death, and was quickly suppressed. Thanks for the full course.
I didn't see anything in your quotes about the circumstances of his death. Was he not murdered? Was MBS not involved?
Arabs kill an Arab CIA double agent on Arab soil.........................SO WHAT! NO ONE CARES!
Great job keeping us up to date. I’m leaning less and less towards an organized and effective “New World Order” being responsible for all this BS in the West ( although that is certainly being tried) and more and more towards confusion, stupidity, incompetence, and corruption as being the cause.
Bingo. But that makes him a hero to the left.
I'm glad you're posting this, but don't go overboard and under the waves for MBS. Brutal thugs have their nice pet projects too, and this guy isn't stupid. Ruthless and farsighted. But not anyone to admire, except in a sort of distant academic manner, for the way he uses his natural gifts.
Defending the Saudi Royal family is a lost cause in my book. AS for being "pro western," so is Ukraine, allegedly, whatever that means.
This piece is reminiscent of joint US-Saudi propaganda. Don't the Saudis still publicly behead women for adultery? Doesn't the House of Saud rule by absolute monarchy? If MBS were really that modern and liberal, he could do a lot to end the suffering of women, yet he doesn't. Also, are you trying to justify extrajudicial killings and dismemberments of people for crimes in general, if indeed Khashoggi is guilty of what you allege? If so, then, you have quite a lot in common with MBS. It's no surprise you're defending him.
So it's okay to murder people who advocate views that you don't like.
Controversial and fascinating. So, JK equals bad. Got it. What does luring him to a CONSULATE...and torturing, beheading and dissassembling his corpse equal? OH! Wait! ...of course. U.S. Ally equals good... you must have a new, digital moral compass, the adjustable one...
I actually had no idea about Khashoggi's real background, and I make a solid effort to keep abreast of at least the "need-to-know" elements of the media's various government-supplied bullshit narratives. Thanks for this.