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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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:38 AM

    It's a new world, didn't you get the memo?

    It was one thing to advocate and follow those principles when we were just fighting the Axis powers, but it is quite another to do it when we are fighting the terrorists. The terrorists don't follow those values, so if we are to beat them neither can we. Don't you know they would slit you and your familiy's throats if they had the chance? Once we beat them good and are victorious then we can resume adhering to those values once again.

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