And if the Vatican has lost it's moral authority over the sex scandals, - - -
clearly the US has lost it's moral authority in the field of Human Rights.
I have to agree with you on that.
Down the drain. It'll take a bunch, years, of respecting other people and cultures to regain what was there just 4 years ago.
Sometimes the end does not justify the means, when the means do more damage than the end can prevent.
Arf