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"Our international leadership has become confused and directionless. We are no longer the shining beacon of freedom and justice to our fellow nations."
America has not lost the status of a "shining beacon" because it's "confused and directionless," America has lost that status because it's now bloodthirsty and vicious. We've got a guy who wrote a column in our local paper justifying waterboarding (Two days before Christmas, natch). He got tons of angry mail and wailed like the WaPo Ombudswoman Deborah Howell at how mean all the commenters were. He wrote something to the effect of: "Hey, just because I justify torturing someone doesn't mean people can write me nasty letters!"
BTW, I appreciate the return of that old 60s term "Establishment." It's appropriate because it means more than just one political party, it refers to the whole group that rules us.
