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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

History professor Michael E. Neagle listens to the Trump maladministration’s justifications for bombing South American fishing boats and hears a number of rhymes. Here’s just one of them:

Trump also has defended the Venezuela strikes by calling the targeted individuals “unlawful combatants.” The George W. Bush administration used a similar line of rhetoric to devastating effect.

Applied during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the label denied captured insurgents international rights and protections otherwise afforded state-sanctioned “prisoners of war.”

It enabled the indefinite detention and torture of these individuals, which eroded America’s moral standing in the world and crippled judicial efforts to convict suspected 9/11 planners.

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*Mark Twain.

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