The quality of mercy

February 3, 2020February 2, 2020 ~ susie

Why the land mine, a persistent killer of civilians, is coming back under Trump https://t.co/W1a5VLTezN
— Suburban Guerrilla Ω (@SusieMadrak) February 2, 2020

Draw your own conclusions

January 14, 2020January 13, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

The NBC scoop about Trump authorizing Soleimani killing last spring looks much worse when read with the NYT's weekend tick-tock. The picture is utterly damning, and suggests a decisionmaking process that has been wholly perverted. Here's my close reading: https://t.co/gDac57qrff
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 13, 2020

.@RepEliotEngel, chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, just confirmed @SecPompeo will *not* appear at this week's hearing.

This is lunacy. Given all we've learned about the depths of deception here, officials simply must explain themselves to Congress:https://t.co/gDac57qrff pic.twitter.com/0baWHoZE7d
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 13, 2020

The Trump who cried wolf

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

.@brianstelter: “Pres. Trump squandered his credibility at the very start of his presidency and many officials in his administration followed him down a path of deceit.

If your skepticism was at a 7 before, it should be at a 9 now because… governments lie in wartime.” pic.twitter.com/aGbb3Tx05h
— CNN (@CNN) January 5, 2020

Trump’s heroes

November 18, 2019November 17, 2019 ~ susie

Breaking News: President Trump, overruling military leaders, cleared 3 service members accused of war crimes, including a Navy SEAL whose rank he restored https://t.co/V34hKk9Gqi
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 15, 2019

Context: Trump intervened on behalf of a Navy SEAL who admitted stabbing a teenage prisoner repeatedly with a hunting knife. One defense offered for the SEAL is that it was not clear the boy was alive at the time https://t.co/zwMQID2OPf
— Graeme Wood (@gcaw) November 17, 2019

Yesterday, Trump pardoned Edward Gallagher over Pentagon objections:
– He shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking with other girls.
– Stabbed a wounded teen to death as he was being treated by medics.
– Shot an unarmed man in a white robe. https://t.co/xxE0oLChGC
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) November 16, 2019

That “decorated Navy SEAL” murdered a teenage girl for little more than sport and was reported by a half dozen of his own men for abusing prisoners and civilians. https://t.co/oNfqOZkugJ
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) May 19, 2019

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

October 14, 2019October 13, 2019 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Breaking News: America’s former Kurdish allies in Syria made a deal with Damascus — a Washington foe — after the order to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria.https://t.co/MPY1r1uhv7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 14, 2019

Agreed

June 28, 2019June 27, 2019 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

Netanyahu is a ‘war criminal’ who should be tried in The Hague, former Dutch prime minister says https://t.co/4WqxqCyA27
— Janis Sexton (@Ez4u2say_Janis) June 27, 2019

Memory lane

March 21, 2019March 20, 2019 ~ susie

Every time I see his smug face on TV, I want to hit the screen with a hammer:

If you want the detailed case for why @AriFleischer is a soulless liar & George W Bush is a war criminal, read @dylanmatt: https://t.co/RGHbd84oQ0
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 20, 2019

Memories light the corners of my mind

February 15, 2019February 14, 2019 ~ susie ~ 2 Comments

My favorite Iran-contra story? When the report was finished, it was pretty damning of Reagan and his minions. One of them had a brilliant idea: “We’ll write an executive summary that completely contradicts the findings! Reporters are lazy, they’ll never read the whole thing.” They were right. The only reporter who read it was I.F. Stone, and no one who mattered listened to him.

Right-wing media figures line up to defend Elliott Abrams, a Trump appointee complicit in crimes in Latin America https://t.co/6zgFD3p4oU pic.twitter.com/Y68bPljbSp
— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 14, 2019

Rape and pillage

January 29, 2019January 28, 2019 ~ susie ~ 2 Comments

The US Isn’t Leaving Afghanistan Anytime Soon – the US Geological Survey agency just signed an LOI to help unlock Afghanistan’s mineral wealth & Trump ally Erik Prince is positioning himself to join in this next phase, Afghan officials say. by @ErinBanco https://t.co/iwKBXy8N0s
— Wendy Siegelman (@WendySiegelman) January 28, 2019

Atrocities

June 11, 2018June 10, 2018 ~ susie ~ 3 Comments

A public defender in McAllen says some migrants are told their kids are going to be taken away briefly to bathe, and then it dawns on them hours later they aren't coming back

— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) June 10, 2018

Sounds familiar?

Charles Pierce:

So, thanks to this president* and his 63 million enablers, and his acolytes in the media, and all the people who didn’t care enough to stop him in 2016, and all the people who don’t care enough to stop him now, we have our own American variations on the Tuam babies and the Magdalene Laundries.

Children are being punished, cruelly and mindlessly, for the perceived sins of their parents and, because we are a secular republic, it is not being done in the name of God but, rather, on the behalf of everybody in this country. That does not make this better. Not by a longshot.