He is already convinced the bad shit has happened and we are all doomed. There is no point in going on. Fetch the fainting couch! It's a fait accompli! He's urging we get it over quickly. I say, "What's your hurry? I still have a split of Cristal in the fridge."

-- L.W.M

Wrong again...either that or you are just lying to cover yourself. You are the one without hope. I have hope but I know the only way for us to truly be better off is with fundamental changes. You on the other hand are the one without hope and you come here daily and try to convince others to join with you in your "stay the course/more and better democrats" madness. You are either too willfully stupid and/or too scared shitless to acknowledge that the "more and better democrats" plan is not the answer. The problem is the system made up of the ruling class, corporate/MIC and the majority of Americans, such as yourself, who enable them time and time again. You are the one without hope because you can't possibly be bothered enough to fight for the necessary changes. So, you lie to yourself, and in this open forum, you lie to others.

I will quote what I found to be the pertinent passages from Silber.

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/03/morality-justice-and-life-destroyed.html

The ruling class of the United States is determined to be a better and more ruthless serial global murderer -- and have no doubt: they will murder again. And again. For they still believe that the United States is "the last, best hope of Earth," and that the U.S. is uniquely entitled to determine how all other nations and peoples must conduct themselves. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe it; John McCain obviously believes it. Whoever is the next president of the United States will believe it. The U.S. will murder again on a vast scale, for our government's murders are righteous murders.

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More and more evidence of the monstrousness of what the U.S. has done and what it continues to do today has slowly made its way into the light, although only at the very edges of our national debate, far from the "mainstream." The information is available, as it has been from the beginning and before the beginning. But you have to search for it.

Most Americans are not interested in any of that, or in the truth of the U.S.'s sickeningly bloody immorality. We remain "the last, best hope of Earth," inherently superior to all other nations and all other peoples in history. The U.S. imposes justice on everyone else. We are the United States -- we are the perfect embodiment of justice. It is redundant and meaningless to suggest that justice be applied to our own actions.

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No new president will alter any of this. And yet we pretend that this election may result in significant changes. We lie to ourselves all the time, for we cannot survive in any other way. Meanwhile, the United States government prepares to do it all again, perhaps on an even wider scale. Most Americans, almost everyone in the media, and almost all bloggers do absolutely nothing.

You are the one without hope. You are willing to play the game and thus you lose sight of any real hope that is out there.

Perhaps we do only have ourselves to blame, but perhaps there isn't enough legal recourse for average citizens to make something along the lines of war crimes tribunals take place. Greenwald and others seem to make the case that if only enough people wrote more letters to their representatives and the editors of their local papers that the tide would turn against the likes of John Yoo and justice would truly be served.

They are too content and/or afraid to do anything else.

I tend to think the reality is a little more complicated than that. People who support the idea of unlimited wartime power for the President are more than willing to use that power, or as much of it as they can muster, to save their own hides.

In the face of that the only remedy seems to be to take extreme measures to move justice forward. And for those not willing to take the next step, are they just as much to blame? -- enabler

Yes. Yes they are.