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Re: The Truth can be ugly and painful, or Why America doesn't count for much anymore.
bowser — (archived)

Help me understand then - what separates the good guys from the bad guys? Since the US no longer believes in the rule of law, equality, living up to agreements and treaties, for what are our troops fighting?

Wartime someone might say. Against whom - anyone who doesn't like the US? That's not war. War has some legitimacy, killing people simply because they don't like you or want to trade with you doesn't.

Rogue nations and banana republics have one law for the poor and none for the rich. Is that what you say we should advocate and tolerate? Fight and die for? I don't think so, really, and it's hard to read anything else into this.

Moral ambiguity is not a good answer. Is there any moral ambiguity between a rich man raping his daughter and a poor man doing the same? Between a Canadian and an American father doing the same? Between an American torturing a man and an Iraqi torturing a man? Do we condemn Saddam and confer medals on Bush and Cheney? Are we hypocritical and no more deserving than the badguys?

Unfortunately yes. We have lost what made us great, what made us special, what made us unique. It's gone, and we gave it away by copying the badguys.

A terrible loss, America. Some of us miss her. "With liberty and justice for all." No more.

Arf

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