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...are the ones who should pay the price for this kind of situation. These men who actually did it should also pay some price but they are in an impossible situation, especially given the 100 pound packs, no sleep, very little rest and the sweltering heat that most Americans are not used to. Dehydration makes for rotten judgment.
But Ford pardoned Nixon, and that began the chain of irresponsibility that now permeates the Republican Party who just seems to always think they are above the law and can do anything they so choose because they consider themselves to be the law, ala the Unitary Executive monarchical mindset. Bush thinks he is above the law but the cold and calculating Bush family mindset supports that kind of thinking.
Nixon was the first high level Republican/ politician that ' if the prez does it it's okay isn't it (my paraphrasing) and Ford by pardoning him assented to that idea. Then along came St. Reagan (the anointed high priest of the Repub party), Daddy Bush and Oliver North who carried on in the tradition of the cold, dead and disturbed Repub party and kept pushing that envelope. Instead of being the Moral Majority as they claimed/claim they really became the immoral majority. That mindset leads to holocaustian behavior.
The poor slob at the bottom, the foot soldier, really just reflects the mindset of the top brass, right up to the WH. The troops at the bottom pay the price but the guys at the top MADE IT HAPPEN.
So we all should ask ourselves the question, have we learned nothing from the Holocaust. Ar e we just allowing the same type of people to once more push their debased values to set the agenda of our lives and the lives of so many others including the troops on the ground who will have to live, for the rest of their lives, with the first hand knowledge of what they did.
And amazingly enough my religion just keeps on supporting these people, these kinds of Rethug party thinkers. But then it also gave it's Imprimatur to Hitler, the Nazis and the Fascists. It all strikes me as just more of the same. Don't we all owe something to the six million dead and the sixty million dead from WWII to never again allow this kind of insanity, this abomination unto the 'family of man'.
