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 th

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.