Those interviews/conversations just left a pit in me. I dont doubt the captors are traumatised too, as the steadfast (and self preserving) belief in the righteousness of what they did (or why) protects them from their own part in it.

The way “X” just flipped back into GitMode, call it trauma, call it training, idfc. Any self pity that man holds is in defence of twenty years of occupation.

Mohamedou deserves better than that, god damn. Death to america