<story><title>Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-spyware-israel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s disturbing what happened to Khashoggi...but I don&amp;#x27;t understand what the U.S. or the West is supposed to do about it. We can&amp;#x27;t go to war over some guy who wasn&amp;#x27;t even our citizen, killed in Turkey, by a foreign government. I hate to say it, but don&amp;#x27;t things like this happen all the time in certain countries?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonwriter</author><text>&amp;gt; but I don&amp;#x27;t understand what the U.S. or the West is supposed to do about it.&lt;p&gt;Stop actively and vocally supporting the violent consolidation of power that the murder was part of?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We can&amp;#x27;t go to war over some guy who wasn&amp;#x27;t even our citizen, killed in Turkey, by a foreign government.&lt;p&gt;We &lt;i&gt;could&lt;/i&gt;, especially since he was a US permanent resident and a journalist for US publications; we won&amp;#x27;t, but then going to war isn&amp;#x27;t exactly the only possible action.&lt;p&gt;As well as he aforementioned steps, we could just stop &lt;i&gt;aiding&lt;/i&gt; the war being wages by he regime.that committed the murder. The political threshold of support for such an action is much lower than going to war.</text></comment>
<story><title>Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/02/world/middleeast/saudi-khashoggi-spyware-israel.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chrisco255</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s disturbing what happened to Khashoggi...but I don&amp;#x27;t understand what the U.S. or the West is supposed to do about it. We can&amp;#x27;t go to war over some guy who wasn&amp;#x27;t even our citizen, killed in Turkey, by a foreign government. I hate to say it, but don&amp;#x27;t things like this happen all the time in certain countries?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Touche</author><text>Murdering dissidents while they are in other countries doesn&amp;#x27;t happen all of the time, no. That&amp;#x27;s why it&amp;#x27;s news.</text></comment>