The hit squad acted “on the order of the Crown Prince,” Biden said, during a Democratic primary debate. “They have to be held accountable.” Biden vowed, if elected, not to sell more weapons to the Saudis. “We are going to make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”

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Yet Biden has done nothing to punish M.B.S. Absolutely nothing—to the astonishment of human-rights groups, foreign-policy experts, Saudi activists, and even some on his own staff.

– Robin Wright writes in the New Yorker, March 1st 2021