Details about the abduction and killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi continue to emerge. How will this incident impact U.S. policy in the Middle East? According to RAND's James Dobbins, the United States needs to "move back toward a distinctly American policy...one which can be distinguished from that of its local partners." Read more »
Danielle Pletka | The Atlantic
Why do murders like those of Jamal Khashoggi and Farzad Barzoft happen? Simple. Because antidemocratic regimes believe they can get away with it. And because the US and its allies have failed to embrace a national-security strategy founded on values.
// Richard Fontaine
After Yemen, Qatar, kidnappings and Khashoggi, it's time to reset the U.S. relationship with the kingdom.
// Danielle Pletka
Dissidents need to know the U.S. stands with them, also.
by Bruce Thornton via Front Page Magazine
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi regime insider and columnist, in Istanbul continues to dominate the news cycle as the president and Congress consider their response. Despite the dog-bites-man nature of the story–– autocrats and tyrants across the globe regularly eliminate political enemies without such intense outrage from the West–– our media and politicians have conducted an orgy of moral preening, thunderous denunciations, and various proposed punishments of Saudi heir to the throne Mohammed bin Salman.
// Katie Bo Williams
The defense secretary condemned the killing of the Washington Post columnist but did not accuse Saudi Arabia, in keynote speech at security conference on the Persian Gulf.
In a Post-Khashoggi World, Impunity Will Reign
// Uri Friedman
The ugly geopolitics in the wake of the Saudi journalist's death point to a new era of impunity.