Note: as we look at Russia's attempted assassination of Skripal and other suspicious deaths, ask how Pompeo's assassination squads differ (aside from not using nerve agents).https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/974688951536705536 …
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This is a pretty simple call. Retired released former spy is not the same as an active terrorist.Just not the same thing.That doesn't mean we are innocent, but exacting retribution on a class of people to intimidate your own citizens is objectively worse than killing terrorists.
Oh really. Do you have a link to 1) the reasons RU killed Skripal 2) what the standards for an "active terrorist" are?
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1) No. Do you have a more plausible reason? 2) You called them terrorists in your tweet. I'm using your premise. And for a third time, I'm not saying either is okay. Just saying they are not objectively the same.
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Umm. That was the title of the piece. The word "terrorist" is even more meaningless than "defector." THAT's the entire point. Pompeo's idea of terrorist MIGHT include defectors.
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OK, I'll bite. "Aside from not using nerve agents" [on Western soil!]: . We have some mechanisms in place for political/democratic oversight of our "assassination squads". Sometimes they don't work for shit. But there is still a *possibility* of bringing abuses to light and 1/n
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bad consequences for the guilty parties. In Putin's Russia it's a *guaranteed* lack of accountability and total impunity for the regime to do whatever they want arbitrarily. With all due respect, straight comparisons between shitholes like my messed up old country and the US 2/n
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and other Western democracies strike me as indeed "whataboutism". That said, it is by all means the ungrateful job of people like you to call the "civilized" govts. up on pulling shithole-like moves. Like unjustifiable, non-judicial killings. 3/3
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