Yea right, because America is so perfect, Mr Costas...

[NuclearDem]

59. Jesus Christ, are you kidding me?

If you think I'm part of the rah-rah-USA crowd and am somehow comfortable ignoring American human rights violations, then you have apparently not noticed a goddamn thing I've written since I've been here, because that includes:

-Criticism of Obama for not arresting Wall Street bankers responsible for the financial crisis and the war criminals responsible for those Iraqi deaths.
-My position that the way the drone program is carried out is tantamount to a war crime
-That torture is a crime against humanity and Obama should have shuttered Gitmo his first day in office.
-Extended solitary confinement as it's used in American prisons is psychological torture.
-We should withdraw all support for the Saudi government as well as all the other dictators we prop up in the world for their crimes against their own people.
-We have no business maintaining over 200 military bases worldwide.

But absolutely none of that excuses Russia's crimes against its people and the people under the heel of the dictators they prop up themselves.

I'm not going to disclaim every post I make about abuses by foreign governments with a footnote of US abuses, because I oppose this horrific behavior wherever and whenever it happens, by the US or somebody else.

And I am not going to avoid criticizing foreign governments for their abuses just because the country I live in carries out some abuses of its own.