{"id":39379,"date":"2018-10-19T07:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39379"},"modified":"2018-10-19T07:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:47:49","slug":"opportunities-abound-after-khashoggi-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39379","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/or-41584.jpg\" alt=\"Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/opportunities-abound-after-khashoggi-gate.html\">Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>Every crisis is also an opportunity.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry I\u2019m not about to go all Rahm Emmanuel, Mr. Realpolitik, on you today.\u00a0 The disappearance\/death\/dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi is both a crisis and an opportunity for the worst people in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And all of them are seizing the day, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, most of it makes me sick to my stomach. Because where were these virtue-signaling champions of human rights like Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan or Lindsay Graham (R \u2013 AIPAC) for the past three years as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) prosecuted a starvation campaign in Yemen with U.S. complicity?<\/p>\n<p>Does Lindsay not know that MbS is funding the U.S. occupation in eastern Syria he\u2019s so in love with?<\/p>\n<p>Now all of a sudden, every war-monger in Washington and Wall St. wants to cut ties with him because killing a political opponent is \u201cbeyond the pale?\u201d \u00a0Even Christine LaGarde of the IMF will be a no-show at MbS\u2019s big \u201cDavos in the Desert\u201d conference.<\/p>\n<p>This is a political hit job.<\/p>\n<p>If this faux outrage wasn\u2019t so transparent it would be pathetic. \u00a0On second thought, it is pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is MbS is a monster.\u00a0 But, he\u2019s our monster, unfortunately.\u00a0 We\u2019ve known this since the moment he entered the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Since getting Trump\u2019s stamp of approval in early 2017 MbS has used that to go too far a number of times which the U.S. has had to clean up behind him.\u00a0 His blockade of Qatar didn\u2019t have Washington\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure killing Khashoggi in the Saudi Turkish consulate didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n<p>His consolidation of power was swift and brutal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only just now dawning on American media companies that the Saudis are a bunch of brutal thugs that make the Lannisters look like Quakers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities Abound After Khashoggi-Gate Every crisis is also an opportunity.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry I\u2019m not about to go all Rahm Emmanuel, Mr. Realpolitik, on you today.\u00a0 The disappearance\/death\/dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi is both a crisis and an opportunity for the worst people in the world. And all of them are seizing the day, as it were. 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