Current Events > Biden trots out Elliot Abrams for Diplomacy Council

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/03/politics/elliott-abrams-public-diplomacy-nomination/index.html

There have to have been some options for this who haven't done a massacre

he was tasked at the time with directing the campaign to replace Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro.

It's crazy how not only has the United States never stopped trying to coup South American countries, but that they don't even keep secret some of the attempts.

This is disappointing, wtf with this ridiculous appointment.

"He's tried to overthrow foreign governments before, so he knows what not to do diplomatically"?

When it comes to foreign policy, there is only one party.

Embarrassing choice. How was there nobody else?

twanderer posted...

When it comes to foreign policy, there is only one party.

Foreign policy and pro-corporate interests. Probably the only two times same thing both sides is actually applicable.

And even then, Republicans find a way to be worse about it.

I don't think it matters if you're an Iraqi whether Obama or Bush ordered the strike.

Again in his role under former President Ronald Reagan, Abrams was also blasted by a Human Rights Watch report for his attempts in a February 1982 Senate testimony to downplay reports of the massacre of 1,000 people by US-trained-and-equipped military units in the Salvadoran town of El Mozote in December 1981 the largest mass killing in recent Latin American history. He insisted the numbers of reported victims were implausible and lavished praise on the military battalion behind the mass killings stances he doubled down on when they were put on display during a 2019 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing by Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, who used his history in Latin American to call into question his credibility.

I keep pointing out warmongering propaganda is getting normalized.

I cannot believe anyone would think this POS belongs in any position of power.

the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women those who aren't strapping bombs to their own devils' spawn and sending them out to meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others and their offspring those who haven't already been pimped out by their mothers to the murder god as shields, hiding behind their burkas and cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your prisons, where they can bide until they're traded by the thousands for another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the purpose.

Here's what his late wife once said of Palestinians.

Absolutely disgusting.

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What does it say about Biden that he would nominate someone like this?

"Biden is the most progressive president we've ever had..."

At least republicans deliver some red meat for the base, and most of that base don't actually care beyond the culture war panic of the moment anyway.