Real priorities
Re: To sell or not to sell to Saudis?, Oct. 25
Our Liberal government is overreacting hugely to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, threatening thousands of jobs in London, Ont., while ignoring and whitewashing the actions of returning terrorists from ISIL, a gross double standard that favours Iran over Saudi Arabia.
How come we condone European countries doing business with terrorist-sponsoring Iran, while acting this rabidly against Iran’s arch enemy, Saudi Arabia?
Either you sanction all terrorist states and organizations, or you sanction none.
You cannot cherry-pick who you will criticize, and ignore worse abuses of human rights elsewhere.
Censure if you will, but don’t play politics with people’s livelihoods. Ana Porzecanski, London, Ont.
Honour the contract. A deal is a deal. Canadians would suffer the consequences of a cancellation. We all feel horror at Jamal Khashoggi’s demise. No amount of retribution will bring him back.
The world outrage has hurt the Saudis. They have released his son and family and allowed them to leave the Kingdom for the U.S.
This illustrates a smallsoftening up as a mild atonement of their modus operandi. Madeleine Wannop Ross Salter, Stoney Creek, Ont.
Doubtlessly the wrongful death of Jamal Khashoggi is greatly suffered by his bereaved family and close friends.
However, if the free world’s news media focused as much coverage and pressure upon officials to act upon our planet’s greatest polluters and resulting global warming as they do on the killing of their fellow journalist, they might initiate something truly progressive.
They may compel those in power to mitigate, if not even begin to reverse, the calamitous course humankind is taking toward a resigned “new normal” of future extreme weather events, likely resulting in the deaths of many millions of people worldwide. Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock, B.C.