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In the Trumpian Age, Every Accusation Is Also a Confession
Airwars and other monitors say Trump’s loosened targeting rules tripled strikes in Somalia and pushed civilian deaths higher across multiple war zones.
“It’s got no anything,” US President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. US troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H.W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor, Bill Clinton. By Ju…