>Please point us to one time where Qatar did something last heinous as Saudi
Their treatment of "guest workers" (de facto almost slaves) is significantly worse than Saudi killing a single person.
Not only due to numbers affected (the Guardian counted 6,500 deaths). It's that, we expect repressive regimes to kill their opponents but when their acts are turned against truly helpless and unrelated people it's even worse.
Workers rights is a separate discussion and one in which the entire gulf region is shamefully criminal.
I asked about the unparalleled brutality of a Crown Prince ordering the dismemberment of a journalist. Remember, this is a person who we host in the White House to shake hands with a smiling president — it matters that the whole world knows he ordered the killing and that the whole world continues to look the other way. Imagine how he will deal with dissidents for the next decade?
>Workers rights is a separate discussion in which the entire gulf region is shamefully criminal.
It's not. It's a human rights issue, which has led to many deaths. Qatar has a far worse record than the rest of the Gulf.
>Remember, this is a person who we host in the White House to shake hands with a smiling president
So you don't want to do any diplomacy with unsavory regimes? With this standard, the US couldn't even talk to most of the ME, not to mention Russia and China. The world is unlikely to survive that.
>I asked about the unparalleled brutality of a Crown Prince ordering the dismemberment of a journalist.
Well, it's a separate issue that almost the entire ME is guilty of. Just look at the case of Zahra Kazemi[0]. And we have diplomacy with those people!
"was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, who according to the medical examiner was raped, tortured and killed by Iranian officials following her arrest in Iran."
I asked about the unparalleled brutality of a Crown Prince ordering the dismemberment of a journalist. Remember, this is a person who we host in the White House to shake hands with a smiling president — it matters that the whole world knows he ordered the killing and that the whole world continues to look the other way. Imagine how he will deal with dissidents for the next decade?