New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship
Just before the holidays, Barack Obama signed a new law punishing Venezuela’s leaders for human rights violations — for persecution and imprisonment of union leaders, journalists and protesters, and for a general disregard for the law.
“The United States,” proclaimed the sanctions, “supports the people of Venezuela in their efforts to … advance representative democracy, human rights and the rule of law.”
Also, the State Department says, Venezuela is far too cozy with terrorists, maintaining a “permissive environment” for, among other villains, agents of Iran and Hezbollah.
Nasty, nasty Venezuela. How could Obama allow such sins to go unpunished?
Now, at about the same time as Obama was sanctioning Venezuela’s terrorist-coddling human rights violators, Loujain al Hathloul and Maysa al Hathmoudi were arrested at the border of Saudi Arabia, a close and loyal ally of the U.S. in its struggle against global terror.
Their crime was an act that’s actually encouraged in Venezuela; more on that in a minute.
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