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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 11:11 AM

    Shooter,

    Can you understand that I might feel more responsible for my country torturing people to death, than for some other folks launching rockets into Israel?

    Now for the tough one. If you can understand the previous paragraph, does it make sense that when the US gives military aid to Israel, I have a similar feeling concerning how this aid is used?

    Can you explain why you do not feel as I do, in your own words based on your own thoughts without invoking any of the usual phrases?

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