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Senator Rand Paul • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
as Senator Rand Paul pointed out that
the target should have been known before the attack.
Pressed by Paul (R-Kentucky) on whether the August 29 strike killed an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative, Blinken testified in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the Biden administration is reviewing the incident, and "a full assessment will be forthcoming."
"So you don't know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?" Paul asked.
"I can't speak to that and I can't speak to that in this setting, in any event," Blinken replied.
"So you don't know or won't tell us?" Paul continued.
"Uh, I don't know because we're reviewing it," Blinken said.
Paul then stung Blinken with the obvious, saying,
"Well, see, you'd think you'd kind of know before you off somebody with a Predator drone whether he's an aid worker or he's an ISIS-K." He added that the US has a recent history of drone strikes with unintended casualties, including
"hundreds and hundreds of people" who were killed remotely by the Obama administration, and civilian casualties lead to "blowback."
Of reports that
seven children and three other people were also killed in the drone strike, Paul said:
"I don't know if it's true, but I see these pictures of these beautiful children that were killed in the attack. If that's true, and not propaganda, guess what, maybe you've created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing the wrong people. We can't sort of have an investigation after we kill people. We have an investigation before we kill people."
Comment: Whilst maneuvers like this can provide clues as to some of the jockeying behind the scenes and who is the next favorite to become the establishment mouth piece, as we've seen over the past 17+ months of internationally coordinated, nonsensical lockdowns, with much testing of the totalitarian waters and shameless backtracking, the ones making the real decisions aren't in the public eye, and the agenda they're working towards is not guided by a democratic mandate.
Further, judging by politicians' profiteering, brazen deception and hypocrisy, during this manufactured crisis, it would appear that much of the political class suffer from character disorders:
- Political Ponerology And The Rise Of Totalitarianism In The West
- Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
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