{"id":382018,"date":"2018-10-22T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-stuck-in-a-dilemma-over-khashoggi-murder\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:11:58","slug":"presstv-trump-stuck-in-a-dilemma-over-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-stuck-in-a-dilemma-over-khashoggi-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Trump stuck in a dilemma over Khashoggi murder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The brutal murder of dissident\u00a0Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, has put US President Donald Trump in a difficult dilemma, a US academic and analyst says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Washington imposes sanctions against Riyadh over Khashoggi\u2019s killing, it would create outrage in the US military\u2013industrial complex,\u201c said James Fetzer, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi\u2019s murder \u201cappears to have been designed to put President Trump in a dilemma where he either accepts the brutality of the murder and\u00a0 imposes sanctions on the Saudis, which would upset the military\u2013industrial complex because it would entail canceling $110 billion worth of arms orders or he seeks to preserve his relationship with the Saudis \u2026. and inflames the world,\u201d Fetzer said in an interview with Press TV on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has initially tried to thread the needle by suggesting that the belated Saudi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/22\/577802\/US-Jamal-Khashoggi-murder-James-Fetzer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brutal murder of dissident\u00a0Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, has put US President Donald Trump in a difficult dilemma, a US academic and analyst says. If Washington imposes sanctions against Riyadh over Khashoggi\u2019s killing, it would create outrage in the US military\u2013industrial complex,\u201c said James Fetzer, a retired professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}