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The thing is--and it's enough to chap my ass raw--the USofA is one of the world's leading practitioners of torture. Always have been, since colonial times. The Spanish tortured the meso-american Indians for fun and sport. Fed indigene babies to their dogs. Europeans invented scalping, an easy way to count each dead Injun, which paid a bounty--folks din't always wait for the victim to expire. I know for a bald bold fact that 'we' tortured suspected vc in Nam. Water-torture, brutal beatings, cigarette burns, minor amputations: Anything to get 'em to confess they were vc, then kill 'em.
Shepard Smith seems to be wedded to and to perpetuating the myth of our 'exceptionality' when he proclaims such an evident and easily exposable lie.
We have successfully pretended for some years, but the weight of the evidence has at last overcome the barriers to its publication, and it can no longer be denied. "We" no longer have any pretension to claims of moral authority or status.
mebbe that's just me...
It's another (necessary) step in the decline from Empire...
Good point, Woody.
What I found interesting was Shepherd Smith pushing his chair away from the desk. His body language was loud and clear. Maybe there is hope for Smith.
Wow. A Faux News talking head with a conscience? Amazing, now I've seen everything.
@Woody, perhaps what he should have said is we're not *supposed* to torture, as it's a violation of our Constitution. But he was obviously a little mad to be thinking rationally.
It seems that we think of ourselves as better than everyone else. Unfortunately, it's the victor that writes the history, and so our misdeeds often get swept under the rug until some historian comes along after the fact and shines the light of day on them. Those who were on the losing side have no voice, or a reconstructed one at best.
We have done terrible things in our past, from slavery, to segregation, to rounding up Japanese Americans who had been here for generations, confiscating their property and putting them in concentration camps during WWII. The thing that I hope for, is that we all learn something from this, so that it doesn't happen again, so that we stop this crap.
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, it gazes back into you."--Friedrich Nietzsche
Good for Shepard Smith! He has repeatedly shown that he isn't just some talking points spinster for the rightwing or for FUX News. I applaud his stance here and his choice of words to drive home his point. Bravo!
I think the point is "We don't torture.....anymore."
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