[vharuck]

>Is this one incident, which is not like Saudi Arabia didnt get massive blowback for, worth the long term consequences?

Not punishing them for this one incident can have the long term consequence of there being more such incidents. Maintaining alliances and amassing power is valuable, but only because they allow us to achieve goals. Many people, myself included, think human rights should be one of those goals.

[excursionist]

What I find really strange is that the murder of one US/Saudi journalist is apparently worse than the mass murder being carried out by Saudi Arabia and US in Yemen. Why is that? Is it because Saudi Arabia did not get explicit approval from US to murder Khashoggi? Or is it only because it could be used as a political point against Trump?