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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. 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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      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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        2. Sloppy-top Milošević‏ @FakeJsCommunist 14 Feb 2019
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          Whats not to believe?

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        2. Brad‏ @briefermadness 14 Feb 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @threadreaderapp unroll please

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 14 Feb 2019
          Replying to @briefermadness

          Saluti please find the unroll here: Thread by @HeerJeet: "1. I wouldn't say "piss off" but I have doubts. The evidence of accountability was that Abrams was asked a pointed quest […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1096042159420116992.html … Enjoy :) 🤖

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        2. Emm Martin‏ @emmartin173 14 Feb 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          This is all valuable history to be reviewed. But, why is no one asking how a convicted perjurer could have a security clearance to do his job? Same goes for John -associate of Maria Butina- Bolton. @whca isn't asking anyone n WH about this, are they?

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        3. asdf‏ @aburratino 14 Feb 2019
          Replying to @emmartin173 @HeerJeet @whca

          Because everyone knows he was pardoned by H.W. Bush. He worked for George W. Bush as well. As for John Bolton, he's been working in the same circles for decades as well. Not sure what you're going on about Butina for though, are you a russiagater?

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        1. SyBo 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇺🇳‏ @SyBo82 14 Feb 2019
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          Oh no, Jeet, you're not showing him the proper decorum.

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        1. Janet Eisen‏ @lcsboyz 14 Feb 2019
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          Wow. Betsy deVos knows her history huh! 🙄How to succeed in stealing babies & selling them to the highest (or maybe lowest) bidder that is not Latino or a POC.

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        1. Shrill Wolfcryer crying in a Guitar Wolf tanktop‏ @by_caballero 15 Feb 2019
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          I'd like to add that SINCE the Junta, all but a few left-ish government have systematically pardoned and repardoned these fuckers, most of whom still have the Argie equiv of clearance and executive posts or pensions. Incl Bolsonaro's buddy, our current privatizer in chief. 🇦🇷😭

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