| >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! Sorry, just used your argument for a sec. [0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Kazemi "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." |