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Showing Original Post only (View all)Look, We have zero credibility to be talking moral outrage [View all]
Last edited Sun Sep 1, 2013, 01:30 PM - Edit history (1)
What a joke to see the US on a moral high horse preaching to the world, when our war criminals play golf and enjoy their lives. The hypocrisy is so glaringly blatant. It's simply disgusting.
If we were willing to express the least amount of contrition, sorrow or regret for many our own deeds, acknowledgment that we sell more weapons on the world stage than another country, etc., just a small reality check, we might gain a modicum of credibility. Of course, admitting to anything, or apologizing for anything is red meat for the GOP, who jump at any chance to portray Obama as "weak" or "un-American" Should that be determining our behavior? Of course not.
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In other words "What others think of me relates to whether I do the right thing or not"
The Straight Story
Sep 2013
#3
Dropping American bombs and missiles on funerals, weddings and first responders,
Maedhros
Sep 2013
#12
Er. Yah. That's pretty much the definition of how people make judgements of other people.
sibelian
Sep 2013
#41
True, but at least we got a new Secretary of Defense and other personnel.
AnotherMcIntosh
Sep 2013
#8
Except for that little fact that oppressed peoples of the world still look to the US
Dreamer Tatum
Sep 2013
#14
We need a huge amount of low ranking people to claim their rights to oppose them.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Sep 2013
#54
Big brother will not tolerate the temerity of organized opposition to the establishment,
indepat
Sep 2013
#55
A large peaceful general strike will be very hard for the Govt. to control.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Sep 2013
#57
We also refuse to sign the Land Mine Ban treaty, the US and 35 other countries cling to landmines
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#78
really no less than any other industrilized nation state. and a lot more than many. nt
arely staircase
Sep 2013
#29
There is probably an ulterior motive concerning money that is the real reason.
Kablooie
Sep 2013
#33
"If we were willing to express the least amount of contrition, sorrow or regret"
Martin Eden
Sep 2013
#35
get use to it...the only thing our economy has to sustain us is death....
ElsewheresDaughter
Sep 2013
#62
Yeah, but the Russkies shouldn't be talking, either.....they're about the only ones.................
AverageJoe90
Sep 2013
#67
Slavery, Wounded Knee, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, My Lai, Shock and Awe, Abu Ghraib....
LibDemAlways
Sep 2013
#68