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Quit Torturing Me About Torture
In recent days we have seen such a proliferation of news about torture, the torture memos and so forth, that I need not recount it here. To me, here are the salient points, in my humble opinion. 1) Abu Ghraib: Has been over-hyped. The acts were atrocious, but hardly the worst thing to happen to anybody, unless one considers humiliation worse ...
Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on April 20, 2009
Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"
I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008
Kissinger's para-nickel, dime, two-bits...
Just so, and Hitchens continues his superior Brit disdain for nations defiant to the Anglo-American imperium, now bankrupt, morally, militarily, financially, and productively. Negotiating defeat with Vietnamese remains Kissinger's outstanding contribution to realpolitik, and amazingly, southeast Asia did not collapse into Communist tyranny. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by gadfly55 on September 29, 2008