All you ever post is liberal crap.
You somehow think Trump ordered the killing of the Saudi journalist.
That is pure liberal crap you read off of a liberal site somewhere. Not a shred of nothing but subjective BS.
I think I clarified that the Trump administration, in choosing to take no action against MBS, effectively sanctioned the killing after the fact. Two very different things and my original comment was poorly worded.
Plenty of actual conservatives, versus Trump conservatives (which is a contradiction in terms) agree with my assessment. You continue to equate strong opposition to Trump as an exclusively liberal position, and it isn't.
"President Trump’s statement is a mockery of the best sentiments of America First. His argument for why we should turn a blind eye to the Khashoggi murder, even as the Saudi regime plans to execute the men who carried out the crown prince’s orders, is that we are
too entangled in our alliance with Saudi Arabia to care. They are a “great ally” because they have “agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the United States.” He even goes on to list the defense contractors who benefit from Saudi largesse.
Nowhere in Trump’s statement does he offer any meaningful condemnation of Saudi behavior or suggest that there is a limit to the portion of the American soul Saudi petrodollars can buy.
His defenders praise the president’s “frankness,” which is fine. But frankness means telling the truth, and that means the truth is that the president frankly doesn’t care much about anything but the Saudis’ wallet and their praise for him. A statement condemning their behavior could have been frank, too. Ronald Reagan often modeled such frankness.
As Senator Rand Paul, a man largely in the tradition of the original America First, put it, “I’m pretty sure this statement is Saudi Arabia First, not America First.”
It’s fine to defend America’s economic interests, but it’s ugly to suggest that American interests begin and end with arms sales and military alliances.
America has an interest in standing up for more than a balance sheet. Progressive historian Charles Beard, an America Firster, argued that the U.S. government must “surrender forever the imbecilic belief that it was her duty to defend every dollar invested everywhere and every acquisitive merchant seeking his private interests everywhere.”
The president’s defense of the Saudi regime debases the term.
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