MILLER: I think it is, without a doubt, true that Israel has committed war crimes.
INTERVIEWER: You wouldn’t have said that at the podium?
MILLER: Yeah, look, because I when you’re at the podium, you’re not expressing your personal opinion. You’re expressing the conclusions of the United States government. The United States government has had not concluded that they’ve committed war crimes, still have not concluded that.
INTERVIEWER: But your personal view is they have?
MILLER: Well so …
INTERVIEWER: And they were while you were there?
MILLER: But but but … Yes but here let me let me qualify that. There are two ways to think about the commission of war crimes. One is if the state has pursued a policy to deliberately committing war crimes or is acting reckless in a way that aids and abets war crimes. That I think is an open question.
I think, what is hard, is almost certainly not an open question, is that there have been individual incidents that have been that have been war crimes, where members of the Israeli military have committed war crimes.
In almost every major conflict, including conflicts prosecuted by democracies, you will see individual members of the military commit war crimes. The way you judge a democracy is whether they hold those people accountable.
INTERVIEWER: but Israel hasn’t been that.
MILLER: That’s my point is we have not yet seen them hold sufficient numbers of the military accountable. I think it’s an open question whether they’re going to.
INTERVIEWER: I’m really struck that you think now that Israel did commit war crimes and yet at the time, and I get why, but at the time you were at the podium and you couldn’t say that, i mean personally that must be very difficult
MILLER: Welllll … So the state department itself had concluded, they didn’t phrase it in these terms, but I think I did at the the podium, a few times, had concluded that it was likely that Israel had committed war crimes, but I do think it’s almost certain that that they have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYnZWZNlMA (starts at 20m)
why isn’t he inside a brazen bull
#1 question the press should be asking
So basically Israel is committing war crimes but it’s okay because they still might prosecute the individuals who carried out the orders that resulted in those war crimes.
Yet again we see why neoliberal civility is completely and utterly useless
All crimes are legal so long as you’re punished for it. That punishment could be 20 years in prison, which is then instantly waved because you’ve got a bright future.
The PTSD these soldiers experience from all the atrocities they’re commiting is punishment enough!
but have you thought about the boost for NATO leadership when we can once again hire the leaders who gave those orders?
🙉
The most smarmy version of ‘I was only following orders’ I’ve heard yet
It’s not even that. It’s more like he’s deliberately putting himself in Plato’s cave. It’s like if you saw your parents boning but you started rules lawyering about how technically you don’t have an epistemological position of absolute authority to make the determination of whether or not your parents were having sex or if they were just doing an unrelated genital activity.
“WHY AREN’T YOU IN THE HAGUE?! WHY AREN’T YOU IN THE HAGUE?! WHY ARENT YOU IN THE HAGUE?!”
“let me qualify this”
Jesus christ this man should burn in hell
I’ll never forget Matthew Miller for laughing when answering a question about Israel blocking aid to Gaza.
Maybe my #1 most hated individual from the Biden administration. Running cover for genocide day in and day out
Literally spelling out that kamala was an accessory to genocide btw
i mean personally that must be very difficult
politically correct way to call someone a sociopath
No fucking shit, that dude was gaslighting the shit out of the public during all those press briefings before January 20th 2025. Fucking count dracula look alike freak needs to be sentenced to death at the Hague.
Isreal: “We are committing crimes against humanity with the intention of inflicting a Holocaust upon Gaza. Not only will we not punish our soldiers for committing war crimes, we encourage them to do so since all Palestinians are born terrorists.”
Miller: “We don’t actually know if they’re committing war crimes but they will probably prosecute people who do.”
Isreal: “We will not, actually.”
Miller: “Reporters are antisemites. Do you condemn Hamas?”
There’s still time for the world to learn from the past…
It’s not a coincidence that this guy looks like Miller, right?
He did a bit already, but no.
this guy, a locked room, a hammer
Behold, the least-demonic liberal.
momentarily had him confused with Stephen Miller
these guys really defiling the honorable tradition of grinding grain into flour
