Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not
Listening to: Alpha Male - Röyksopp
From the Miami
Herald:
If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden’s
attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and
ignored the Constitution — and then expect the American people to congratulate him
for it — I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.
Had
anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming
a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he
had known there was no threat — and expect America to be pleased by this — I would
have thought our nation’s sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.
If
I had been informed that our nation’s leaders would embrace torture as a legitimate
tool of warfare, hold prisoners for years without charges and operate secret prisons
overseas — and call such procedures necessary for the nation’s security — I would
have laughed at the folly of protecting human rights by destroying them.
If
someone had predicted the president’s staff would out a CIA agent as revenge against
a critic, defy a law against domestic propaganda by bankrolling supposedly independent
journalists and commentators, and ridicule a 37-year Marie Corps veteran for questioning
U.S. military policy…
