Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   A real recipe for regurgitating Date:   12/17/2018 12:22:26 PM

I totally agree with you.  When you look at our 'justice" system, maybe  theirs is a better way.  But we need to remember that the journalist who was executed, went to the counselette on his own free will, knowing that he had ticked off the King of Saudi Arabia.  It was poor judgement on his part.  Saudi does not have a free press.  Saudi takes enemies of the Kingdom very seriously.  It is not a free society.  He sought amnesty in the U.S.  but continued to publicly criticize the Kingdom.  

Donald Trump has made the right decision with regard to his reaction.  We likely sent them a diplomatic note via our Ambassador to strongly protest the action.  But Saudi funds in the billions, spent in the U.S., mean thousands of jobs to Americans.  Future contracts = more jobs for Americans.  I'm sure someone will claim it is crass to to think about benefits to us, versus a man's life.  We've got to stop thinking we must hold other countries to our standards or ideas about justice.  Would we cut off trade with China because they have a different standard of justice?  Singapore?  People need to get real.  People also need to study up on Saudi and see the pressures they are up against, which are never discussed in the media.  It's very complex.  

Now one of the liberals or both will get on here and tell me that I am a horribly amoral person and not fit to live.  But we have to deal with reality and stop thinking that we have a right to tell the rest of the world how to live.