After you torture and kill people and detain them indefinitely even after you discover most of them are innocent of any crime, you sort of lose the moral high ground.
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After you torture and kill people and detain them indefinitely even after you discover most of them are innocent of any crime, you sort of lose the moral high ground.
But at least your orange juice is well contained.
How strange it is that in our modern world, America and torture are becoming synonymous words and a new slant is given to the term “Mean Machine. Not a successful athletic team, but an empire in disarray with a bloated military structure and an economy in tatters. Still motivated by dreams of global hegemony, the US cannot see that their visions of conquest in the Mideast are all for nought and that the wars they insist on fighting there will accelerate their ultimate demise.
Sic transit gloria mundi or so passes the glory of the world. It was exciting while it lasted but now it’s almost over. I’m sure the world will breathe a sigh of collective relief with the passing of American era.
last line—“the American era.”
exactly.
when I look op the word “hypocrisy” in the Dictionary, I see the photograph of bush, cheney, madame albright, pat robertson, jerry falsewell, and the rest of the religious right.
In numerous ways, the U.S. is unfortunately becoming a joke; the moral high ground area is just one example.
Hey, just wanted to share one of those must read items that we all should read and know..
Written in the 60s and often performed by the author and others in a Ginsbergian rant/improvisation, The Teeth-Mother Naked at Last is considered perhaps the finest 20th century anti-war poem.
Here’s a link to the only page I could find with a decent version of the text (pardon all the weird HTML errors):
http://www.caterina.net/paw/archives/000213.html
I have been lucky enough to hear Bly read this both publicly and privately and the man is perhaps one of the most enthralling people you will come across – like some fictional mystic from another time who has only assimilated to our time through a haircut and a change of clothes.
What an exceedingly powerful poem. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, it’s like verbal heavy metal. Definitely not your typical ‘patched elbows’ poem.
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(BBC News) – Ministers have admitted they handed over terror suspects in Iraq to US authorities, sparking claims of collusion in extraordinary rendition.
The UK has always denied allegations of collusion in extraordinary rendition – the term used for sending terror suspects for interrogation in countries where torture is not illegal – despite frequent claims to the contrary.
In a statement to MPs, Mr Hutton said a review of detainees held by the UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003 had uncovered the case of the two men, members of the banned group Lashkar e Tayyiba, which has links to al-Qaeda.
Mr Hutton said there was no “substantiated evidence” that they had been mistreated or subjected to abuse there.
The Tories said the UK faced charges of being “complicit with serious abuse”.
Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed released upon arrival in UK
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Knowing political conservatives-I wonder if the Bush White House ever had the moral high ground?
WHAT moral high ground?
The torturing, killing, and indefinite detaining did not begin with the George W. Bush regime, he was just more brazen about it than previous administrations.