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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:10 AM

    The Terrorists Will Slaughter Us All In Our Beds --

    for no reason at all -- if we don't torture and enable the torture and extermination of suspected Terrorists and their Terrorist relations.

    There is no difference between that reasoning and the reasoning of the Germans as they rounded up, tortured, and exterminated their many enemies -- opposing military personnel, innocent bystanders, terrorists, resistance, freedom fighters, what have you, and anyone around or associated with them -- along with scads of Untermenschen of all kinds, including Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuels.

    Germans, after all, were destined to be slaughtered in their beds by their many enemies if they didn't do so.

    As wack as Krauthammer is (and there is hardly a more wacked out pundit on the American scene these days), surely he knows -- and respects -- the parallel arguments, and what he and others are basically saying (though if confronted, they would deny they are actually saying it) is that the American enemies who were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg may have been guilty, but they did the right thing from their patriotic perspective. They, unfortunately, lost the conflict. Too bad, so sad.

    In their view, America (and Israel, our Only Real Ally In the Whole Wide World) has not lost the conflict with the Muslim Horde.

    And so long as that is the case, there are no "war crimes" and no punishments for them due -- on our side. There is no Universal Law, according to these bright thinkers who gobble up airtime and printer's ink with abandon. There is only what you can get away with and impose on others. Until and unless the Horde is victorious, which of course means the End Of Everything, it is insane to hold anyone on Our Side to account for anything they do in the service to the Authority they serve. Failing to carry out orders to massacre and torture is the chargeable offense.

    Just as it was in Nazi Germany. And if Germany had been Victorious, there would have been no War Crimes Trials for Germans, only for the Allies who lost.

    The notion of International Law is simply alien and nasty to them. And they have been very successfully propagandizing Americans to believe likewise.

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