"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s bland acknowledgment of Khashoggi’s death and announcement that the White House would continue to “follow” international investigations (that would be the Saudi’s self-investigation?) reminds one of Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil.”...
There
was no actual condemnation by the administration of this human rights
atrocity, no defense of a free press or of the right of Americans
(residents or citizens) to travel safely. The administration looks
feckless, and if it continues down this road, will earn the ridicule and
disdain of Americans, our allies and all free peoples.
In allowing the Saudis to delay this long and failing to demand audio recordings allegedly capturing the murder, the administration has become an accessory after the fact, an enabler of nearly unimaginable evil."
