1. I wouldn't say "piss off" but I have doubts. The evidence of accountability was that Abrams was asked a pointed question on a panel. Hardly sufficient redress for lying to congress, covering up massacres & praising genocidal leaders.https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1096039180436676608 …
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7. This is Abrams/Reagan human rights policy in a nutshell: praising the architect of a genocide for his "personal integrity" and giving him the arms to carry out his killings.https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1096049350592159744 …
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8. Elite impunity: McNamara knew the Vietnam war was unwinnable but pushed for it and lied about it. 50,000 Americans & millions of Vietnamese died. His punishment? He was made the head of the World Bank.
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9. Elite impunity: Kissinger pushed for a coup that destroyed Chilean democracy, continued Vietnam War despite knowing it was lost (to achieve face-saving "peace with honor" facade). His punishment? He's a celebrated elder statesman & Hillary Clinton's friend.
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10. Good thread documenting my claim that Abrams offered an instrumentalized and cynical version of human rights:https://twitter.com/bradleyrsimpson/status/1096052454582640640 …
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11. Here we see Elliott Abrams covering up the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero as late as 1993. https://twitter.com/peterjgowan/status/1095914307949379587 …
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12. In the 1980s, the Argentine Junta systematically kidnapped Jewish kids (many orphaned in the dirty war) & raised them as Christian: an anti-Semitic crime. Elliott Abrams's response was a private rebuke & public support for the regime.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-diplomat-us-knew-about-argentina-baby-thefts/ …
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Hillary Clinton was also one such emblem, which is why many of us felt the way we did about her.
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Look up the Nuremberg trials to see exactly how it would work.
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