Spencer Ackerman: I want to rant on a street corner – specifically, the one by the Brookings Institution – about what's in this article. I'm so triggered I'm finding it hard to read it all at once. But I'm glad it was published before Memorial Day.

I want to rant on a street corner – specifically, the one by the Brookings Institution – about what's in this article. I'm so triggered I'm finding it hard to read it all at once. But I'm glad it was published before Memorial Day.

America’s Monsterwww.nytimes.com How the United States backed kidnapping, torture and murder in Afghanistan.

Nuh uh. You don't ever get to claim you didn't know who Abdul Raziq was. www.forever-wars.com/blaming-the-...

I sure would hate the ICC too

Consider this the street corner rant

Memorial Day Reading: Abdul Raziq, Revisited—and Revealedwww.forever-wars.com If people you cared about died in Afghanistan, you'll get righteously angry reading about the monsters that they were sacrificed to prop up. Good weekend for it

I bailed here: "Many Afghans say Raziq used the Americans and their military might to pursue a personal vendetta, taking vengeance against the rivals his tribe had been fighting for decades. In interviews, many former senior American officials acknowledged that they never grasped that dynamic."

How is that even possible? I'm a middle aged dad who does IT and that was... What's a word for "more than obvious?"

“An attempt at deception” is what you’re looking for

"Self-serving revisionism thinly papering over a troubled conscience?" Which surely translates elegantly to one single German compound noun.

tattooed-in-glowing-neon-on-the-inside-of-your-eyelids?

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