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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel W. Drezner

      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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      Daniel W. DreznerVerified account @dandrezner
      Some thoughts on the the Omar-Abrams clash from yesterday, which I suspect will piss off just about everyone on this darling website. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/14/anatomy-questioning/ …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      2. "in the early 1980s, Abrams played a vital and constructive role in ensuring that the State Department’s human rights bureau was treated seriously by the rest of the State Department." As if instrumentalization of human rights is not, in fact, the problem!

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      3. To unpack that a little: one of Abrams' main historical legacies is that he showed that rhetoric of "human rights" could be a potent tool of American foreign policy, building a bridge from 1970s Democrats (Jackson, Moynihan, Carter) to Reagan/Bush.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      4. Within the American foreign policy elite, this intrumentalized version human rights is regarded as a good thing (hence the bipartisan praise of Abrams from NatSec bigwigs). Those of us on the outside have some questions.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      5. Instrumentalized human rights (i.e. human rights in the service of American hegemony) has always been open to the charge of hypocrisy (see Abrams role in denying El Mozote massacre) but beyond that has underpinned disastrous interventions (2nd Iraq war).

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      6. Beyond Abrams himself, there's the larger problem of elite impunity of which he's only one emblem. No one in American foreign policy elite ever pays for anything they do or is held accountable in any meaningful way: McNamara, Kissinger, Cheney etc.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted corey robin

      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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      corey robinVerified account @CoreyRobin
      While we're revisiting the Golden Oldies of Elliot Abrams, I thought I'd re-up this story, which I wrote about in the @LRB and which not too many people know about. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n22/corey-robin/dedicated-to-democracy … pic.twitter.com/lHt6xki6y8
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Brad Simpson

          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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          Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson
          1/ Sorry, Dan, but you get the history dead wrong. Elliott Abrams during the 1980s tried to weaponize the Bureau of HR and turn it into an instrument of partisan warfare that would only target "leftist" regimes while defending HR abuses by right wing allies at all costs. https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1096039180436676608 …
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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

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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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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2019

          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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        1. Olde Dude‏ @therealgoatrode 14 Feb 2019
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          Olde Dude Retweeted Olde Dude

          Please see this thread on the definition of genocidehttps://twitter.com/therealgoatrode/status/1096049497228992513 …

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          Olde Dude @therealgoatrode
          FYI, the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines "Genocide" to mean "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 1/
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        1. vasabjit banerjee‏ @vasabjit_b 14 Feb 2019
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          Will someone also note the religious angle to the Guatemalan genocide of indigenous peoples, please? The close connections of Efrain Rios Montt to Evangelical bigwigs Jerry Fallwell Sr. and Pat Robertson, who allegedly got him access to the Reagan admin. and helped install him.

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