> Trump also allowed the Saudis to murder and dismember a US journalist with zero consequences. I mean the Saudis are linked to 9/11 and Bush chose to launch i

> Trump also allowed the Saudis to murder and dismember a US journalist with zero consequences. I mean the Saudis are linked to 9/11 and Bush chose to launch into forever war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a fundamental element of the populist scepticism that “respectable” politicians are competent at anything. And something like one murder is precisely the type of sickening academic response about decency that somehow is supposed to shield the decades of foreign policy mishaps, atrocities and incompetence.