Back in September 2001, people didn't know much about Afghanistan. It didnt' bother people that Pakistan, the UAE and the Saudi's officially recognized the angry beardies. They were mad at a Saudi rich kid and some burnt out jihadis that lived there. washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/…
Even when the Emiratis rulers were caught selling weapons and ammo to the talibs via Dolphin Air (owned by Abdullah, now the foreign minister) and run by Viktor Bout people didn't really get upset. publicintegrity.org/national-secur…
Even when Emiratis went on big dollar bird killing hunting parties in Afghanistan and left Land Cruisers as gifts for the talibs....people didn't get upset. ft.com/content/57aeba…
I was told by a secret squirrel that at least 8 missions to kill Bin Laden were scrubbed partly because we didn't want to upset pending arms deals with the Saudis and Emiratis. We even let Saudi's go home after 9/11..but not Americans. vanityfair.com/news/2003/10/s…
We had the Saudi's torturing and murdering people, RitzCarltoning their own people, warring on propel fucking around foreign policy with deep suspicions that cash and benefits were transferred to the Trump family...still we didn't get upset. theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jar…
What we should get upset about is our current government's betrayal of democratic ideals for cash. Accepting the murderous tribes as allies and partners. This shows a level of moral corruption for money that is hard to explain away. bbc.com/news/world-mid…
Both MBz and MBS currently have kill teams to Find, Fix and Finish their citizens in Europe, the U.S. and other regions. Khashoggi is just one of many people targeted for surveillance, harassment and ultimately murder. Westerners are involved. But even they have their doubts.
This codependent dysfunctional relationship with dictatorships is also turning us into remote anonymous killers of people targeted as terrorists from Somalia to Afghanistan. With the media and public knowledge gone.....who cares who we kill or why? thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone…
Is there a way back from this moral abyss? Are we now going to see tax money disappear into black budgets paid to contractors to stalk and obliterate anonymous people based on shitty intel? Why not expand this to U.S. dissidents or opposing parties. Where is the bottom?
Am I exaggerating? In April of 2019 both Trump and NSC Bolton called Saudi and UAE-backed American citizen Khalifa Haftar by phone and approved his planned mass murder of Libyan civilians and toppling the U.S./UN/EU backed government. reuters.com/article/us-lib…
This synchronized with a meeting between Haftar and Erik Prince in Cairo in which he presented a plan to hunt down and murder a number of people including EU citizens. Haftar agreed to pay 80 million for that plan. As with most Prince projects, it failed. theintercept.com/2021/02/26/eri…
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