Breaking Bad. The infinite wisdom of Walt, speaking to Jesse:

[delrem]

"You need to stop focussing on the darkness behind you. The past is the past."

Jesse, at that time, was clearly suffering from PTSD and, while certainly no innocent, was equally certainly, "fucked".
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President of the USA Barack Obama, Jan 11, 2009 (days before the official inauguration)
Q. Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor (ideally Patrick Fitzgerald) to independently investigate the gravest crimes of the Bush administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?
A. ... I have a belief that we have a need to look forward as opposed to looking backward. And part of my job is to make sure that, for example at the CIA, we have extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep America safe, I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all their time at work looking over their shoulders and lawyering up.

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President of the USA Barack Obama, Aug 1, 2014:
"We did some things that were contrary to our values. I understand why it happened. I think it's important, when we look back, to recall how afraid people were after the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon had been hit and the plane in Pennsylvania had fallen and people did not know if more attacks were imminent. And there was enormous pressure on our law enforcement, on our national security teams to try and deal with this. It's important for us not to feel to sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job those folks had. And a lot of those folks were working hard, under enormous pressure, and are real patriots."

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Sept. 10, 2014:
President of the USA Barack Obama commences the bombing of Syria.

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We are all neocons, now.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Fear itself.

Carry on.