[marxmail] NYTimes: I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era.

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> As is the case with genocide, (so well described in this article), so does
> lack of full accounatbility for torture encourage it in the future as a
> precedent.
> Example - when Obama was inaugurated in 2009, he was immediately brought
> to CIA HQ and informed that the preceding US government of W Bush/Cheney
> had violated international law concerning torture, both in Iraq at Abu
> Gharib, and at Guantanamo. This treaty had been signed by the US
> government, making it also a violation of US law. He announced to the press
> that "we tortured some folks." When asked if he was going to seek
> accountability for this crime by prosecution of all those responsible,
> The Great Leader exclaimed
> "We have to look forward, not backward." - i.e. - no accountability, which
> would be an encouragement to all future torturers.
>
> As the Red Army and British troops were closing in on Berlin in May 1945,
> they captured some leading Nazis and were going to execute them on the
> spot. The US troops intervened and called for a public trial in front of
> the world (Nuremberg) to achieve accountability. Obama represented a
> different approach!
>
>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share>
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