SECOND TAKE
BOSTON GLOBE: Saudi crown prince should be a pariah
Jamal Khashoggi murder stands as an indictment of America’s longtime Middle East ally
What does justice for Jamal Khashoggi look like now? What will it take to close the books on the murder of the Saudi journalist and US resident assassinated and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul? And what of the dozens of other journalists languishing in Saudi prisons — and the untold others who await that terrifying knock on the door?
This is larger than one crime — and far larger than the current diplomatic pas de deux the Biden administration is attempting to execute with America’s longtime Middle East ally, a brutal hereditary dictatorship whose disregard for human rights has made its alliance with the US untenable...
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