Because apparently that's how they roll in The Kingdom.
One can scarcely imagine the outrage from our media and our punditocracy were this story from Iran or Syria. But because it comes from our best friends in the Arab world, response has ranged from none to muted.
Had this happened in Syria or Iran it would be featured for days on end on CNN and FOX. It would be cited as evidence of the barbarism of "those" people. The White House would release a statement condemning the state that permitted such a travesty of justice.
But it happened in Saudi Arabia. We need their oil. We need them to buy the products of our military industrial complex.
So we'll pretend we didn't see this story...
Business as usual.
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