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Yet, strangely enough, selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia was just fine according to this administration.

vuln 7y ago
It's fine according to ANY administration. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-administration-arms-sales-offers-to-saudi-top-115-billion-report-idUSKCN11D2JQ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-...
- JaimeThompson 7y ago
  The only references to nuclear are in relation to the Iranian nuclear deal. Do you have another source that shows the Obama administration allowed the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia?
mattigames 7y ago
And not saying anything at all after they dismembered a journalist with a chainsaw.
- drak0n1c 7y ago
  If you're wondering why - it's age-old realpolitik. They don't lambast the Commander In Chief when the US military drones a US citizen, and we don't lambast the Prince when a Saudi agency butchers a Saudi pundit. The current Prince is relatively more secularist and friendlier to Israel/West than his rivals so that means he gets the realpolitik pass. Obama didn't say anything about how Iran hanged multiple homosexuals in the same year he arranged the Iran Deal. Under the past few administrations, Russian and Chinese smugglers were allowed to circumvent North Korean sanctions in order to appease unpredictable NK elites, until those smugglers were frozen and sanctioned in 2017-2018. In decades past we did far more to support unsavory activities than simply abstaining from public criticism - all to further what we thought were the lesser of two evils or to avoid conflict. This is not an endorsement of the efficacy or nobility of that type of diplomacy. Just an explanation.
  - 18pfsmt 7y ago
    While I believe in the innate nature of humans as good, there are evil people that had bad things happen to them. Obama's actions simply acknowledge there is evil (which is obvious).

vuln 7y ago

It's fine according to ANY administration. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-administration-arms-sales-offers-to-saudi-top-115-billion-report-idUSKCN11D2JQ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-...

JaimeThompson 7y ago
The only references to nuclear are in relation to the Iranian nuclear deal. Do you have another source that shows the Obama administration allowed the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia?

mattigames 7y ago

And not saying anything at all after they dismembered a journalist with a chainsaw.

drak0n1c 7y ago
If you're wondering why - it's age-old realpolitik. They don't lambast the Commander In Chief when the US military drones a US citizen, and we don't lambast the Prince when a Saudi agency butchers a Saudi pundit. The current Prince is relatively more secularist and friendlier to Israel/West than his rivals so that means he gets the realpolitik pass. Obama didn't say anything about how Iran hanged multiple homosexuals in the same year he arranged the Iran Deal. Under the past few administrations, Russian and Chinese smugglers were allowed to circumvent North Korean sanctions in order to appease unpredictable NK elites, until those smugglers were frozen and sanctioned in 2017-2018. In decades past we did far more to support unsavory activities than simply abstaining from public criticism - all to further what we thought were the lesser of two evils or to avoid conflict. This is not an endorsement of the efficacy or nobility of that type of diplomacy. Just an explanation.
- 18pfsmt 7y ago
  While I believe in the innate nature of humans as good, there are evil people that had bad things happen to them. Obama's actions simply acknowledge there is evil (which is obvious).