© Peter Brookes
This is a different situation to Iraq, because the arms we sell to Saudi Arabia are real, and therefore fairly harmless, whereas Saddam had those non-existent ones, and those things are lethal
It's clear now that what Jeremy Corbyn should have done every time he met a Middle Eastern politician "linked to violence". Instead of speaking in a meeting with them and shaking their hand, he should have behaved responsibly, and sold them £4.7bn worth of weapons like we do with Saudi Arabia.
Even the CIA now seems to accept the Saudis murdered their opponent by dismembering him and disposing of him in boxes. This is why it's alright to continue selling them arms, because at least they're tidy.
It's the tyrants who leave bits everywhere we should be tough with, because it would be immoral to sell Tornado fighter planes to a regime that left it to the cleaners to clear up after they'd murdered someone.
Comment: He was doing so well until that last bit.
Trump has unequivocally condemned the 'mail-bomb attacks'. And while Democrat public figures may not have themselves concocted this pre-election scheme, the deep state interests in 'the intelligence community' who pull their strings almost certainly did.
Anyway, on Saudi Arabia, it's great to see MSM reporters finally engage a bit of dark humor when commenting on the absurdity of it all.