Rose: "We make them pay the price by killing Russians?"
Morell: "Yeah."
Rose: "And killing Iranians?"
Morell: "Yes " You don't tell the world about it. " But you make sure they know it in Moscow and Tehran."
Morell also advocated U.S. military bombing of Syrian government targets as part of achieving "regime change" in Syria.
The fact that everything that Morell was proposing violated international law didn't seem to faze Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The idea of killing Russians and Iranians inside Syria could be construed as terrorism but even that doesn't raise eyebrows these days, although if some senior Russian or Iranian went on TV to propose killing Americans in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan, to send Washington a message, that would surely draw righteous condemnation.
The notion that the United States has the right to attack the sovereign nation of Syria with the goal of overthrowing its government has been at the heart of the kinds of war crimes that Chelsea Manning helped expose.
Morell, however, appears to have simply inculcated the lawless attitude that prevailed in both the Bush and Obama administrations, in which the U.S. government was a law onto itself, deciding when and where its forces would bomb and kill.
By "honoring" the likes of Morell and "dishonoring" the likes of Manning, Harvard's Kennedy School has sent a clear message regarding how it sees the role of the U.S. government in the world. The school is signaling that it embraces the moral hypocrisy at the core of this attitude and is demonstrating that it can be trusted to train future U.S. government leaders in how to operate outside the norms of civilized behavior.
[For more on Manning's contributions to civilization, see Consortiumnews.com's "Did Manning Help Avert War in Iran?"]
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