Yeah, they want it both ways. Or rather, they want to say "this is a war" when it suits them, and "no, they're not a nation-state" (which is true) when it suits them. This way they can bypass not only international agreements like Geneva, but also the Constitution -- particularly the BoR -- with impugnity. What's especially troublesome is that all the Congresscritters lined up with hands high to salute all this. That turbine sound is GW spinning in his grave fast enough to throw a cherry tree across the Potomac with a silver dollar in his wooden teeth. Or something.
Ah, well... The nice thing about studying history is that you learn that the excesses of one era are usually replaced with a different set of excesses in the next.
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Date: 2 Feb 2005 04:13 am (UTC)Ah, well... The nice thing about studying history is that you learn that the excesses of one era are usually replaced with a different set of excesses in the next.