Trump, in Selling Arms to Saudi, is Also Selling Short its Values
(WorldNews Asia)

Among Donald Trump´s many unusual characteristics as president is his frankness. Last week, after the disappearance and apparent torture and murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Trump argued that `we would be punishing ourselves` by canceling arms sales to Saudi Arabia over a human rights concern. Few world leaders, or former US presidents, would have been so bold as to publicly admit that a Saudi journalist´s life is not worth the loss of arms sales. And it´s true that the armaments relationship between these two countries is long-established and lucrative for US companies, as my own research on the global defense industry shows. However, the president has it wrong when he...