When cult-leader evangelical nutbag Pat Robertson isn’t trying to pray away hurricanes or for Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers to be smote, or accusing the LGBT community of secretly trying to spread HIV in America, he’s explaining the complexities of geopolitics to his flock. On Wednesday, it was the diplomatic issue of how angry God-fearing people should be about the alleged torture and murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi was also a big critic of one of the Trump family’s business partners, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
Robertson: What I'm saying—I'll say it now and I'll say it over and over again, we've got to cool the rhetoric, and what the president is trying to do is to give the Saudis an out; and calls for sanctions and calls for punitive action against the Saudis is not, is ill-advised. Why? Because our main enemy in the Middle East is Iran. They are the fomenters of terrorism and they're killing a lot of people. And then we've got Assad, in Syria, who's killing many many many thousands of people and causing millions of refugees. You've got one journalist who, who knows? Was it interrogation? Was he assassinated? Were there rogue elements who did it?
Well, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is in Saudi Arabia today seeking answers from the Saudi royal family over that missing journalist. And allegedly, who was killed by, they think Saudi operatives, but they don't know for sure. And Wendy, I just don't think—you've got a hundred billion dollars’ worth of arms sales, which is, you know, that's one of those things. But more than that we've got to have some Arab allies. We have to have it. We cannot alienate the biggest player in the Middle East, who’s a bulwark against Iran. But can we have somebody that's killing journalists that’s a U.S. resident is the question, you know? We've had so many people killed. I mean we had CIA people killed in Lebanon. People have been taken hostage there over the years. I know it's bad, but I mean we've had all kinds of stuff, but you don't blow up an international alliance over one person. I mean, I'm sorry.
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are sorry. You’re the most sorry person I’ve ever seen over the past many decades. An important thing to remember here: Robertson never once uses Jamal Khashoggi’s name. Whether he didn’t learn it or just doesn’t want to personalize the matter doesn’t really matter. His name was Jamal Khashoggi, Pat.
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