American morality is exclusively defined by money — indicates President Trump

© 2018 Peter Free

 

11 October 2018

 

 

The way American leadership thinks

 

Consider this situation:

 

 

The Turks (evidently with reason) suspect that Jamal Khashoggi — a Saudi dissident and permanent US resident — was murdered inside Istanbul's Saudi consulate. By a Saudi hit team that flew in exclusively for that purpose and afterward (anonymous Turkish officials say) smuggled his body (or its bits) out.

 

 

Naturally

 

Americans leadership needed to pretend concern:

 

 

Donald Trump has said US investigators are looking into how Jamal Khashoggi vanished at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, but made clear that whatever the outcome, the US would not forgo lucrative arms deals with Riyadh.

 

We want to find out what happened,” Trump told Fox News on Thursday morning. Asked later on Thursday whether the US would cut arms sales if the Saudi government was found to be responsible for Khashoggi’s disappearance, the president demurred, saying the US could lose its share of the huge Saudi arms market to Russia or China.

 

“I don’t like stopping massive amounts of money that’s being poured into our country – they are spending $110bn on military equipment and on things that create jobs for this country.”

 

© 2018 Julian Borger, Martin Chulov and Patrick Wintour, Trump announces Jamal Khashoggi investigation but says he won't halt Saudi arms sales, Guardian (11 October 2018)

 

 

The same logic, we can infer, applies to the Saudi extermination of Yemeni families with American weapons, dropped by American-fueled planes and Congress's full support. See, for example, here and here.

 

The United States' world tumult-creating wars can be justified the same way. What's good for the Military Industrial Complex is good for America.

 

 

The moral? — This is the United States — the world's "shining city upon a hill"

 

I'm sure Jesus would agree. Lucre was also important to him.