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It is dangerously naive to believe that cruelty can be directed only towards the guilty. An appetite for cruelty is equally sated by the victimization of innocents. There’s no reason that a straightforward prosecution of the administration’s crimes would be inferior to performative cruelty.

I’ve reported on war crimes tribunals, I spend most of my time documenting war crimes, and I think you’re the naive one if you believe we can break the will of these depraved beasts without extremely public and entirely legal consequences for their genocidal crimes.

I think I started where Carl is and have ended up where you are, or in the approximate neighborhood. I feel kind of awful about it, but I feel much more awful about them escaping justice, etc..

Also, as an aside, this is the line that makes me find this palatable.