This may answer your question. The following quotes are all from Will Rogers who has been dead almost 75 years:

"It has just become almost impossible for a country to have a nice, home-talent little revolution among themselves, without us butting into it. But here we go again. If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: "America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership."

"If we keep our nose clean and don't start yapping about somebody else's honor or what our moral obligations are, we might not get dragged into it. But it's going to take better statesmanship than we have been favored with heretofore."

"When we start out trying to make everybody have moral elections, why, it just don't look like we are going to have Marines enough to go Round 1. Why, if it wasn't for the movies picturing Marines going from one country to another, we would never know what they looked like. I had an unusual experience the other day -- I seen a Marine in America."

"Europe has got a thing that America always falls for, and that's when they tell us they want our "moral leadership." That's almost like telling an old man he's got sex appeal. It's a line of bunk that this country falls for and always has. Our delegates swell out their chests and really believe that the world is just hanging by a thread."

It’s hard to imagine how US schools plan on teaching history going forward. If they try to teach students about how Japan tortured people during WW II, and when the exact same techniques were used by the Bush administration they're called “enhanced interrogation”, wouldn’t ANY student with an ounce of curiosity ask what the hell is the difference? Is the plan to just drop ALL discussions of torture committed throughout history, because to do otherwise would anger the shock jocks and extremists on radio & TV? It seems much more likely that the GOP is going to go the way of the Whig Party and disappear over the next decade or so. Making endless accommodations to their moral bankruptcy is going to stretch credulity like a rubber band until it snaps.

”But they issued "no overarching statement" on the issue? What does that even mean? What’s an "overarching statement"?”

--Glenn Greenwald

She’s probably using the Lucy Van Pelt argument:

"Has it every been on a bubblegum card? Hmmmmmmm? How can you say it’s an overarching statement if it’s never been on a bubblegum card?"

Biff! Bam! Kapowie!

his wife probably tells him to play outside.

"When you stick your hand into a pile of goo that was once your best friend's face (or a box of popcorn, either one), you'll understand what it takes to be a man!"

"when liberals choose to pursue diplomacy over military action, it's because the men have been neutered and feminized by a movement of penis envying/hating harpies."

- frankly0

Hahahahahaha! The sad thing is this guy is serious! A guy who no doubt reveres rightwing "heroes" like John Wayne (part of the incredibly small minority of able-bodied men 70 years ago who got out of serving in WWII because of sheer cowardice), George W Bush (rich enough to dodge the draft and hide behind his mommy's apron), Dick Cheney (a gutless coward who dodged the draft but supported the Viet Nam war), Rush Limbaugh (another gutless coward who dodged the draft but supported the Viet Nam war), and on and on.

You can count on one hand the number of rightwingers who aren't -- by their own statements of being openly terrified since 9.11 -- pussies.

Only cowards support torture, because only cowards know there is never any chance of them being in "harms way". And doesn't that pretty much define the GOP?

Apparently, your ancestors enjoyed passing the buck with the flight of their arrows.

Instead of looking to Mr Greenwald to lead you out of the darkness, it's time for YOU to come out and expose those who would destroy your world. YOU have within YOU the power to be on the right track of history! YOU should not leave it up to others to do YOUR work. The time is now for YOU - Bustin Urbals - to get off YOUR ass and not pass the buck onto others.

The hour is nigh! Run ... run, I say!

"if you don’t propose any new ideas as to what to do with the terrorists in the future, but, instead, keep saying the same things day after day, your writing might eventually fit the classical definition of insanity.”

-- Calif Mike

I would think insanity is mindlessly giving consideration to incontrovertible evil just because people on TV and in newspapers are on board with it.

It's the same as saying, "Glenn rails against the systematic burning of people's faces off with blow-torches, yet never offers any serious alternatives"

How did America ever get through the much, much, MUCH bigger threats to this nation than Saudi thugs and not crumble under the weight of the sheer cowardice we've seen in America over the last 8 years.

"Are we to take your word on it, Mr. Greenwald, that we've been detaining Uighurs in Guantanomo simply because they're Muslim? Somehow I suspect there's more to the story."

-- -- MJMC

Absolutely. I have it on very good authority that they hate us for our freedom.

Eric Rudolph, Timothy McVeigh, the Doctor assassins, etc., may have been Christian terrorists, but we NEVER judge an entire group by the actions of a few bad apples!!

"This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile."

- George W Bush

In what respect, Charlie?

I give Obama a few more months before he starts putting on soldier costumes and prancing around like George 'Tommy Tune' Bush.