The case of Khashoggi and tribalism run to Amok
The case of Khashoggi and tribalism run to Amok
The management by the Trump administration of the Jamal Khashoggi affair, and the domestic policy of the United States associated with it, show on two levels an extreme form of tribalism. This type of tribalism involves drawing rigid lines according to fixed loyalties and never seeing any good on the other side of the line or any evil on the side itself. It means subordinating everything, including principles, to sustaining the strength and power of one's own side.
As anticipatedPresident Donald Trump, grudgingly acknowledging the outrage over what happened to Khashoggi, is trying to formulate the minimum possible response to the outrage, with the least disturbance in US relations with Saudi Arabia. The administration's position was reflected in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. smiling while sitting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), who, much as he wanted to diversify and modernize the Saudi economy, has the political and human rights record of an autocratic thug.
Trump seems eager to support any cover story about the fate of Khashoggi invoked by the Saudi regime, as suggested by his reference to a possible "rogue" operation. It has stayed on this path despite the overwhelming evidence in the public domain, based on leaks from the Turks and reports from the investigative press, that Khashoggi died in a premeditated operation, saw for bones and all that, that he could only have been released with the approval of the highest levels. in Riyadh
The eventual cover story of Saudi Arabia may be difficult to swallow for any objective observer. One report It indicates that an important general in the Saudi intelligence apparatus has been chosen to take the blame. The rank and position of the future player of fall may make his ability to order and organize such an operation plausible, but his very age and closeness to the crown prince would still make it unlikely that MbS had anything to do with the matter.
Trump's approach has been part of his administration's tribalist approach to politics in the Middle East, in which Saudi Arabia is one of the good assumptions on the US side of the line and, on the other side of the line, its gulf crossed. the rival Iran is represented as the source of all evil in the region. The approach involves the blatant application of double standards. Imagine how the administration would react if Iran had done something similar to what happened at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Those who yearned for a fight with Iran, such as National Security Adviser John Bolton, would have considered that such an event would have been more than sufficient for a casus belli The United States probably would have gone to war against Iran a week ago.
The brazen application of double standards has become familiar to observers of domestic policy in the United States. There's hardly a day gone by without Trump supporters providing cover or excuses for the president's latest scandalous exclamation or act, and that would deservedly torpedo most political careers. (This week, for example, there has been Trump praising of a Republican candidate in Congress, who was found guilty of assault for physically attacking a reporter, and the president said: "Anyone who can make a blow to the body ... he is my boy")
The president's enthusiasm for giving a pass to a regime that has brutally murdered a journalist who was a resident of the United States. UU Writing for a US newspaper has become just another Trumpian excess for his supporters to justify. Once again, the means to defend this presidency are not overlooked and what is desired ends with the associate defender. The most mocking means used in the present case include a campaign to defame Jamal Khashoggi, a campaign that has support for of some Republicans in the Capitol and a presidential retweet. The representation of Khashoggi as an infiltrator of the Muslim Brotherhood or a friend of terrorists is belied by his columns, including his finalArticle published posthumously, which was a call for the Arab world to expose itself to more free, diverse opinions and more objective journalistic reports.
Those who support the Trump administration mainly because of the way it rigidly divides the Middle East into supposed friends and enemies have joined the smears against Khashoggi. Is It includes at least one prominent person in the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, an organization name that has always been deceptive, but especially it is with respect to Khashoggi and what the autocracy of MbS has done to him.
Another of the president's toilets is the televangelist and former presidential candidate Pat Robertson, who calls for continuing to be kind to the Saudi regime because of all those arms sales that the president is still talking about. You know that a moral compass was lost when someone who gained fame as a Christian preacher says we should put aside the murder of an innocent journalist to sell ammunition. This position also reflects the loss of any political compass that remains in sight where the interests of the United States in the Middle East meet and do not lie.
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