Despite admitting to having illegally sent a guy to El Salvador by mistake, and even though the U.S. is paying El Salvador to indefinitely imprison him, the DOJ is arguing that, well, nothing to do, it's not in our hands anymore. The general tone of their response is "welp, sucks to be him."

the idealistic view is that this will resolve into a more just moral global order, one that more closely reflects the postwar ideal. the other option is that the pretenses get dropped entirely, and there's a full embrace of a violent western supremacy.

"there’s been no equivalent interest in whether defenses of Israel’s offensive, which has been promoted with eliminationist language and allegations of collective Palestinian responsibility from Israeli officials...might be undermining the safety or comfort of Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims"

All of this could have been avoided if we had gouged his eyes out like the byzantines did to outgoing emperors.