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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 12:58 PM

    Actually if they are there

    So will all the Zionists who called most of us here "anti-Semites" for noticing the power of "The Lobby" now come back and apologize?

    If they are lurking, and any one of them has any clout, or access, or anyone they can contact, now is the time. The situation there is going from bad to worse, the UN is pulling out, the ICRC is suspending personnel movements. There are no foreign journalists there. There is very little water, fuel or food, and a shortage of medical supplies. Troops in such situations, without the bright clear lines of humanitarian law, don't act in ways that countries are proud of. Please do something if you can.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/world/middleeast/09mideast.html

    The Congress should be demanding U.S. diplomatic intervention, immediately.

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