Reply #4: On looking backwards...If America needs to look forward (from [View All]

[Solly Mack]

the Bush years of war crimes and abuses of office) then shouldn't we also look forward from September 11, 2001? It is also the past.

And yet...America will wave the flag days ahead, the day of, and days after.....speeches will be given on how America overcame adversity and triumphed over our "enemies"....but not one word will be given to the lies and trumped up evidence to invade Iraq...or the torture...or the extraordinary renditions...or the illegal detentions...or all the deaths...in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

So, we're to move forward from the crimes...but we're to remember the event used to cloak those war crimes and abuses in the self-righteousness of nationalism (er...remembrance) and our own moral goodness. (hypocrisy)

What you said just got me to thinking... :)