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Is America Ensnared in an Endless War?

1960Republican Wrote: Feb 08, 2013 4:37 AM
Amen, amen, I say unto you, History has entered a new era, unknown to human groups of yore. Well, not so fast. Humans killing humans is not a new thing. Drone attacks causing collateral damage of innocents is not a new thing. Considering a cavalry trooper with rifle, pistol and saber as a kind of drone, we got a lot of practice at that, gaining rule over North America -- those poor "Indians," so called. What Pat is really saying, underneath it all, is humans are not what they think they are. Basically, predators and killers and eaters of other life, just like everything else that grows. I don't care what it says in those books. If one gets used to it, one can survive pretty well.
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

So said Richard Nixon in his interviews with David Frost. Nixon was talking about wiretaps and surreptitious entries to protect lives and safeguard national security in a violent and anarchic war decade.

The Nixon haters pronounced themselves morally sickened.

Fast forward to our new century. For, since 9/11, we have heard rather more extravagant claims by American presidents.

Under George W. Bush, it was presidential authority to waterboard, torture, rendition and hold enemy aliens in indefinite detention at Guantanamo.

Under Barack Obama, we don't have a Nixon "enemies list"...

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