Justice would be hauling Joe and his Secretary of State in front of congress and appropriate courts, to be tried for violating the Leahy laws and actively lying to congress. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a rules-based society.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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Not looking to minimize of the situation or its assessment but the quotation in the article from Biden’s address actually reads:
“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”
It’s the killing of Hassan Nasrallah he calls “a measure of justice,” not Isreal’s attack…for what it’s worth.
“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and governments led by them were responsible for killing thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians in just the past year alone as part of state terrorism and genocide. Would killing them be "a measure of justice" by the same standard (I'm not advocating for violence, just asking a theoretical question)?
It’s the killing of Hassan Nasrallah he calls “a measure of justice,” not Isreal’s attack <...>
Isn't that one and the same in this case? If killing one valid target requires killing many innocent people, that's not justice, that's terrorism by US own definition.
Agreed which is why I think what Biden said is originally stupid and Tlaib is the correct thing to say