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"I just got a little worked up when Andrew O'Hehir gets fighting mad about how the US treats the enemy, when our enemies BRUTALLY AND VISCIOUSLY(sic) CUT OFF OUR CITIZEN'S HEADS."
This creature named a several people who have been beheaded. The movie documents 36 people who have been murdered in our custody. Some of these people were completely innocent victims.
But we aren't supposed to be angry when people are being tortured and killed in our name because a completely different group of people are doing some bad things. So if the FBI tortures my innocent neighbor, I can't stick up for him because some mobster in Chicago is shooting people?
Total insanity. How can we stand up and demand that other countries, included those oh-so-evil "Islamicist" ones, follow the rules of civilization when we declare the rules don't apply, and go about breaking them on an industrial scale?
We can't. And we aren't. The world is not a better, safer, or more compassionate place since Bush and Cheney started brutalizing, torturing and killing those who might be our enemies. Life is getting nastier, more brutish and shorter all the time.
It's time to clean up our act and bring justice back to our cause. After we start treating our prisoners with justice and even compassion, we can start lecturing the rest of the world about how they're acting.
And if we are walking the walk, they might actually listen to us when we talk. Right now, they're laughing at us. Except for the ones who are picking up stones and knives and looking for revenge.
