Perhaps you'd like to read this also, a proof of our evil times:
"The Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan reports: "Inside a brightly lit room, the walls adorned with memorials to 23 dead American soldiers, Lt. Colonel Robert Balcavage stared at the three Sunni tribal leaders he wanted to recruit. Their fighters had battled US troops. Balcavage suspected they might have attacked some of his own men. An hour later, he signed up some of America's newest allies."
Americans' propensity for believing that they, or their compatriots, are incapable of ever doing anything immoral or disreputable has long since ceased to amaze me. This isn't true of all of them, but judging from comments on CiF and elsewhere many Americans are the smuggest people on earth.
anticant is the blogname of a lifelong free speech and civil rights campaigner. A lot of his life since WW2 has been taken up with battling against cruel and over-bossy laws, censorship, censoriousness, and Nanny Knows Best types. Now elderly and in poor health, anticant hopes his memories and thoughts will be of interest to those engaged in today's struggles for freedom, democracy, and a more hopeful tomorrow.
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Perhaps you'd like to read this also, a proof of our evil times:
"The Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan reports: "Inside a brightly lit room, the walls adorned with memorials to 23 dead American soldiers, Lt. Colonel Robert Balcavage stared at the three Sunni tribal leaders he wanted to recruit. Their fighters had battled US troops. Balcavage suspected they might have attacked some of his own men. An hour later, he signed up some of America's newest allies."
US tactics in Iraq
Americans' propensity for believing that they, or their compatriots, are incapable of ever doing anything immoral or disreputable has long since ceased to amaze me. This isn't true of all of them, but judging from comments on CiF and elsewhere many Americans are the smuggest people on earth.
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