{"id":16043,"date":"2016-01-05T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16043"},"modified":"2016-01-05T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T18:56:38","slug":"how-obama-enables-atrocities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16043","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Enables Atrocities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Obama Enables Atrocities<\/a><\/h3>\n

Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0President Obama seems\u00a0so scared of offending the Saudis and their Israeli allies that he will tolerate almost any outrage, including Saudi Arabia\u2019s mass beheadings and\/or shootings of the regime\u2019s enemies including a Shiite political leader who dared criticize the monarchy, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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As the New Year dawns, the neocons and their liberal interventionist sidekicks remain firmly in control of Official Washington\u2019s storylines \u2013 on Syria, Russia and elsewhere \u2013 even as their policies continue to wreak havoc across the Mideast and threaten the stability of Europe and indeed the future of civilization.<\/p>\n

The latest proof of this dangerous reality came when Saudi Arabia\u2019s repressive Sunni monarchy executed prominent Shiite political leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr for criticizing the nation\u2019s kings and princes. Before the killing, the Obama administration held its tongue in public so as not to antagonize the Saudi royals. (Nimr\u2019s nephew\u00a0awaits Saudi \u201ccrucifixion\u201d<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for his role as a teenager in Arab Spring protests.)<\/p>\n

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Saudi King Salman meets with President Barack Obama at Erga Palace during a state visit to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After the Nimr execution, the State Department issued a mild protest toward the Saudis while blurring the guilt by twinning it with criticism of Iran where outraged protesters damaged the Saudi embassy, which led to Saudi Arabia\u2019s retaliatory breaking of relations with Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that diplomatic engagement and direct conversations remain essential in working through differences,\u201d State Department spokesman John Kirby said meekly on Sunday, while some senior U.S. officials reportedly seethed in private over the latest Saudi provocation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a dangerous game they are playing,\u201d one official\u00a0told<\/u><\/a>\u00a0The Washington Post\u2019s Karen DeYoung while insisting on anonymity to discuss U.S.-Saudi relations.<\/p>\n

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How Obama Enables Atrocities Exclusive:\u00a0President Obama seems\u00a0so scared of offending the Saudis and their Israeli allies that he will tolerate almost any outrage, including Saudi Arabia\u2019s mass beheadings and\/or shootings of the regime\u2019s enemies including a Shiite political leader who dared criticize the monarchy, writes Robert Parry. As the New Year dawns, the neocons and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,9786,11445,584,7203,694,701,1633,1899,776,827,2344],"class_list":["post-16043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-execution","tag-nimr-al-nimr","tag-obama","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shia","tag-sunni","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16045,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16043\/revisions\/16045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}