"The members of the law-and-order brigades, to whom Sen. Cotton proudly belongs, have a distressing tendency to slide into justifying lawlessness to support their version of “law and order”." -- the recourse to violence without legal or moral restraint is, of course, standard issue fascist methodology.
And Cotton is too singularly butt-stupid to have a "complex" of any kind. Maybe it is a Napoleon simplex?
Your statement of position on Israel matches mine - support the nation in its concept and existence, condemn the inhumanity and disproportionate use of deadly force against Palestinian (and Palestinian-adjacent) people. Having taught the Law of War / Law of Armed Conflict to officers at the US Army Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, OK in the 1980s, I agree with the assessment that Israel's military actions causing the deaths and injuries of thousands of civilians is well outside any reasonable definition of "collateral damage" (what a disgusting euphemism to describe the slaughter/maiming of innocent people) and is indefensible as a method to achieve any truly military (i.e., legal and effective) objective under international law. Admittedly, the civilized world has struggled to enforce such laws since the time of Grotius, but that failure of will does not transform the essential immorality of the actions themselves. All Israel is accomplishing there is the creation of another corps of terrorists seeking retribution in the seemingly unending cycle of violence in the purportedly "holy" land.
My time as an Army officer was long enough ago (early '80s) that it's difficult to relate that experience to what's happening today, but the Laws of Wars remain transcendent and timeless. The actions of the Israeli Army have long since crossed the line separating proportionality from genocide.
"[T]hat failure of will does not transform the essential immorality of the actions themselves." Sadly, I could not agree with you more. There are more than a few senior Israeli officers and politicians who should be in the Hague waiting to be tried on genocide charges...and this is from someone who has historically and firmly been in Israel's corner.
War, while inhuman by its very nature, need and should not be criminal in its conduct.
Just... wow. Nailed it. The quotes you quoted should be on T-shirts nationally.
But I guess that's like the Republicans: "Don't like it? Kill it. Humanity be damned, it's our God-given right to murder!"
Hypocrisy knows no limits.
Your last line should be the GOP campaign slogan. 😝😊😆🤡
I even have the T-shirt design: https://x.com/Mountai70046414/status/1783179035331174610
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"The members of the law-and-order brigades, to whom Sen. Cotton proudly belongs, have a distressing tendency to slide into justifying lawlessness to support their version of “law and order”." -- the recourse to violence without legal or moral restraint is, of course, standard issue fascist methodology.
And Cotton is too singularly butt-stupid to have a "complex" of any kind. Maybe it is a Napoleon simplex?
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Your statement of position on Israel matches mine - support the nation in its concept and existence, condemn the inhumanity and disproportionate use of deadly force against Palestinian (and Palestinian-adjacent) people. Having taught the Law of War / Law of Armed Conflict to officers at the US Army Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, OK in the 1980s, I agree with the assessment that Israel's military actions causing the deaths and injuries of thousands of civilians is well outside any reasonable definition of "collateral damage" (what a disgusting euphemism to describe the slaughter/maiming of innocent people) and is indefensible as a method to achieve any truly military (i.e., legal and effective) objective under international law. Admittedly, the civilized world has struggled to enforce such laws since the time of Grotius, but that failure of will does not transform the essential immorality of the actions themselves. All Israel is accomplishing there is the creation of another corps of terrorists seeking retribution in the seemingly unending cycle of violence in the purportedly "holy" land.
My time as an Army officer was long enough ago (early '80s) that it's difficult to relate that experience to what's happening today, but the Laws of Wars remain transcendent and timeless. The actions of the Israeli Army have long since crossed the line separating proportionality from genocide.
"[T]hat failure of will does not transform the essential immorality of the actions themselves." Sadly, I could not agree with you more. There are more than a few senior Israeli officers and politicians who should be in the Hague waiting to be tried on genocide charges...and this is from someone who has historically and firmly been in Israel's corner.
War, while inhuman by its very nature, need and should not be criminal in its conduct.