Haley’s Embarrassing Defense of the Gaza Massacre

by | May 16, 2018

Haley’s Embarrassing Defense of the Gaza Massacre

by | May 16, 2018

Nikki Haley’s response to yesterday’s massacre in Gaza is to engage in whataboutism:


The Trump administration’s Iran obsession would almost be comical if it didn’t have such a dangerous distorting effect on our foreign policy. Iran’s actions in the region were not the subject of the meeting where Haley said this, and talking incessantly about Iran to avoid addressing the issue at hand has become a typical maneuver for Haley whenever U.S. clients commit some outrage that she would rather ignore. Whether she is busy whitewashing Saudi coalition crimes in Yemen or running interference for Israel after it massacres over 60 people, Haley’s m.o. is to change the subject.
Read the rest at theamericanconservative.com.

Daniel Larison

Daniel Larison is a columnist for Responsible Statecraft. He is contributing editor at Antiwar.com and former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. Follow him on Twitter @DanielLarison and at his blog, Eunomia.

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