Susan Rice
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And that has never been
In the post-World War II international construct, how the United States has operated, we have been to our great benefit, a economic and national security superpower with an unmatched collection of allies and friends and partners that has enabled us to uphold a rules-based international order that has benefited us, made us more secure and made us more prosperous.
And he's thrown all of that away.
Nicole, I don't know Marco Rubio well.
I certainly don't know J.D.
Vance well.
But both of them have demonstrated a really remarkable ability to change their stripes.
They're, you know, classic chameleons.
They are very different people, it would seem, or at least they are acting as very different people.
than they did just a few years ago.
And when people do that in the context of trying to ingratiate themselves to an authoritarian type leader, you have to assume that it is for power and influence and personal ambition.
I don't know what else explains it.
It would seem to me to be worthy of investigation as a war crime or a potential war crime.
I'm not an international lawyer, but I do know that there are rules of war and there is international law.
And I don't know a single reputable international lawyer who would argue that.
based on what evidence we have so far, that the second strike was legally justified.
In fact, many question whether the initial strikes are legally justified.
But certainly the second strike raises enormous questions that I think merit investigation.
Of course, they won't receive investigation.
any more than the ICE officer Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis who killed Rene Good be investigated as he should be and as that incident should be.