Interests and values in US foreign policy

The Trump administration has been bending over backward to avoid confronting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, for his role in the gruesome assassination in Istanbul in October of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The CIA has reportedly concluded with “high confidence” that the Crown Prince was responsible for the murder.
But instead of holding Crown Prince Salman accountable for this lawless and blatant violation of human rights, pre