On Thursday, President Donald Trump shared a post by former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, in which Thiessen quotes his own op-ed where he asserts, “If there are two factions in Iran, one that wants a deal and one that doesn’t, let’s kill the ones who don’t want a deal.”
“This is the most vile, wicked, and unAmerican behavior I've seen in my adult lifetime,” responded former U.S. military officer and whistleblower Daniel Davis, who rose to prominence after exposing the illegal actions of the U.S. military in Afghanistan. “This is a profound absence of morality, gross violation of any laws that have ever existed, and puts us on the same mental plane as some of the early followers of Adolf Hitler.”
Davis emphasized that he wasn’t exaggerating, saying that even “vile Hitler” didn't kill negotiators.
“And if you think this kill-them-all mentality will be limited to Iranian negotiators, you are fooling yourself,” wrote Davis, “Once a leader has so dehumanized his opponents that you can callously call for them to be murdered for the ‘crime’ of not agreeing to your terms (i.e., not surrendering), there will be nso lower inhibition to killing larger and larger numbers of people who don't submit.”
Dismissing any suggestion that the op-ed reflected Thiessen’s opinion rather than Trump’s, Davis points out that Trump followed up with a second post where he agreed that the “murderous idea” was "Very True!!!" — ”so he is fully on board with the mentality.” This kind of...
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