Next for Mohammad bin Salman: Time's Man of the Year and a Nobel Peace Prize for not invading his neighbors until after the award ceremony.

Its not our business, and we should stay out of it. Its another country, and from what I understand the person killed was not even a citizen of the USA.

Many errors, especially on Iran, a major source of world-wide terror. Iranian money and manpower support brutal regimes in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and they have major influence in Iraq. Their influence is a liitle less in (so-called) Palestine which gets excessive UN and EU money. There is a brutal war going on in Yemen, Iran was the instigator and keeps it going.

Who is the worst? tough competition, note Saudi terror supporting money was from random ruling class sources whereas from Iran it is government. Recent actions by MbS have been to rein-in those random elements. Some success may have caused him to overplay, but this journalist Khashoggi has unsavory connections which are not widely reported.
Who is worse? Well I still call it as Saudi, but, Saudi is improving, Iran is getting worse.

It is not just Israel that Iran threatens, with words and potential, but the US. Iran was well on the way to having nuclear weapons, thanks to the Blank and Merckel. This should be a situation to focus the mind. Trump has at least caused delay.

Right on, Robert. Fair, balanced, accurate, dispassionate analysis, as always. Your articles are among the few published anywhere that are worth reading. Thank you.

I would like to have seen the Prez play the Turks and Saudis played against each other, the Prince against the Caliph. Erdogan and MbS have grandeurs of empire building. Over hundred years ago they were at each other throats. Trump really needs a historian on his staff. Past history would help in foreign diplomacy.

Reminds me of the som of Saddam. Entitled, ruthless, power hungry.

Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a member of the Saudi royal family Interviewed today by Maria Bartiromo.
This may and to your disquisition.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...

In my opinion , This event was a deep state set up.
The intent was to start a war between Turkey and the Saudi’s.
If MBS wanted this guy dead .why do it in your embassy?
It makes no sense.

Spot on Robert...however, between the leftest enclave and our dependence on oil, an opposing force toward Iran and support for Israel, don't you think Trump has been placed over a Barrel?...pun intended.

I wonder, if perhaps, once the US is able to ramp up our own production of oil into independence from Saudi interest and our DC swamp gets modestly drained, we might slip away during the night of long knives.