Here's my radical and no doubt easily ridiculed take on Manning, Snowden, the NSA, etc.:
All government should be in the sunshine. No secrets, no lies,
everything in the open for all to see. If the country has to rely on
secrets and lies to survive, it's not worth saving. And I am, having
just passed the 68-year mark, becoming increasingly convinced that the
survival of this country is not worth the price we and the rest of the world are having to pay.
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After a year: genocide by any other name
And the name, I learned this week, is: The Dahiya Doctrine. Mehdi Hassan explains here .
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The internet news site Common Dreams carried an article recently about a group of students from Liberty University visiting the Smithsonia...
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I may write more about this later, but for now just examine the differences. Later... (added on Oct 9, 2010): Essentially, in apes the l...
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