John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE INDEPENDENT
“The Saudi Crown Prince plans to make us forget about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi before the US election
“A further difficulty the crown prince will face in trying to reboot his nation’s image is that the Khashoggi affair has energised a wave of criticism from former friends, including Republican senator Marco Rubio”
What better symbolizes the utter corruption of Washington than its continued close ties with that grotesquely brutal murderer, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia?
Yes, Trump is especially guilty, but he is only a rude chief representative for the entire Washington establishment.
Rather than drain "the swamp," he ended up giving jobs to many of its inhabitants. On major matters, he and they are pretty much indistinguishable.
Except for his frequent incoherence, he represents nothing really different compared to all the rest of "the best government money can buy."
Of course, there is the Israeli connection. Netanyahu and the Crown Prince have a mutual admiration society. They are covert allies in many projects, all of them involving blood and death. Kind of “blood brothers,” you might say.
Sadly, Trump and much of Washington dance to Netanyahu's tune for the Middle East. We have the ongoing spectacle of a great power dictated to by what is effectively one of its own colonies, albeit a rather special one in the immense attention and subsidy it receives.
The virulent hatred and unwarranted attacks we see against Iran, efforts to strangle a major economy of more than eighty million people and hurling ugly threats of war - Trump recently, like Hillary Clinton a few years ago, having actually threatened Iran with the word "obliteration" - are the direct products of that sick and inappropriate relationship.
Netanyahu, with his putrid "moral army" lined up regularly behind a fence to shoot unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, including women and children, is absolutely no different in character than the murderer Saudi Crown Prince. The screams of Netanyahu’s victims are indistinguishable from the screams the Crown Prince’s victims.
Hypocrisy is just thick in the air when Washington here or there accuses some government whom it doesn't like of brutality or terror. We hear the words regularly, but the people voicing the charges themselves have blood up to their armpits.
Washington both tolerates and exploits genuine terror for its goals and desires, day-in and day-out.
