Re: What Do We Really Know About Osama bin Laden’s Death?

[David Kilroy]

"We are simply not a good as we were when [Israel] put Nazis on trial. We
have no high ground, if we aver did. "

No, we [America] have no high ground.  Nonetheless it grates that we refuse
to behave as anything other than vengeful hypocrites.

I'm used to it.  That doesn't mean I, or anyone else, should keep mum about
it being a disgusting, shameful state of affairs.  To do anything less is
to accept the complicity every government seems intent on foisting on its
citizenry.  You want to accept it as the natural state of affairs, that's
your choice.  But what, exactly, are you accomplishing by pointing blindly
into the ether & endeavoring to shame others for caring about the rule of
law?

That "get used to it" at the end reads like "cynicism is the only
acceptable response" which is chickenshit, sorry.  We need ideals to aim
for, otherwise we might as well all retire to the study to fellate papa's
Webley.
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