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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 10:49 AM

    @shoots

    "moral posturing" ?

    Is that like--putting the "detainee" in an upside down position, with arms and legs shackled while I get to see how many hours it takes for him to complain that he would like to not mess on the floor?

    That "moral posturing"--didn't know whether to take you literally. No Jews or Arabs deserve any treatment you deem permissible to further a dubious position of moral right, because we're at war with those people.

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