Your quote was:
"Americans crack me up.
The Saudis offed a guy. Big f'n deal. They had their reasons.
We off plenty of guys. We have our reasons.
What's the f'n difference?"
Maybe you didn't say it directly, but in the context of the discussion it seems like you are saying Americans/Saudis are basically one in the same.
People don't hate the Saudis because they "offed a guy"
From US News today:
President Joe Biden adopts a tougher stance over Saudi Arabia's rights record. As a presidential candidate, Biden had vowed to make Riyadh a "pariah" over the Khashoggi killing.
President Joseph Biden flipped the bird to the Saudis many times beginning with his Presidental debates when running for the Presidency. But when an oil crisis developed in this country because of President Joseph Biden's restrictive oil policies he went begging to the Saudis to increase production and they told him to fuck off.
This Biden position re Khashoggi was not / is not held exclusively by Democrats. It also bleeds amongst some in the Republican party. Thus "Americans crack me up." It was being expressed in this very thread by your enemy, er I mean buddy.
I personally think President Joseph Biden and anyone else who holds this position to be fools. Because many governments, including ours, are guilty of killing people who they consider to be a threat to their sovereignty. It was childish and short sighted of Bidden to make it a wedge issue with the country who holds the most significant levers in the oil industry. And also a country who has not been openly hostile to our strongest middle eastern ally, Israel. They are also one of our (US compaies) biggest customers for weaponry. That's a good thing for two reasons. 1) those weapons pump a lot of money into our GPD creating good paying jobs for thousands of Americans. And 2) They are an armed enemy of Iran , thereby serving as a check on the largest terrorist state in the world.
They are an important US ally. Tell that to Joe Biden. He's too shortsighted to understand the geopolitical ramifications of his phony condemnations.
Get it now?
This has nothing to do with our government being the same as their government. Jeesh.
What does this have to do with governments being run the same way? I never said or insinuated any such thing. Please stick to the specific issue being discussed.