Posted on 05/01/2009 10:36:04 AM PDT by astyanax
If the CIA torture memos tell us anything, it’s that Americans still have a long way to go towards civility.
When disenfranchised youths flew planes into buildings, it should have been a time of quiet introspection.
Instead, Americans gave into baser emotions and demanded vengeance against our “attackers.”
Since we had the barbaric Bush administration in charge, they gave into those demands and soon loosed the sadistic Cheney, who took a break from blasting his friends in the face with a shotgun to turn his violence on foreign minorities.
Pretty soon our intelligence agencies had grabbed some random Arab terrorist masterminds off the street and started inconveniencing them, making them uncomfortable, and — dare I say it — torturing them.
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And that relates to the article how?!
(Hint: might want to actually READ it...)
I am pretty sure the tongue-in-cheekyness and satire in the article are in the line of connected dots sprung forth from the events that the pictures depict. And, Obama’s dichotomy of not respecting the US flag while holding himself in respect to the Green flag has parallel logic to the double standards in the article.
My opinion, tho.
Wow! You read way more into that than I did.
With the 5 minute span between posting and his reply, I assumed it was a knee-jerk reflex.
Maybe he’s too subtle for me? :)
What is that green flag? and are we sure that’s not a photoshopped pic/
The green flag is the Saudi flag. I’m told in Arabic it reads “there is no god but allah and mohammed is his prophet.” I had one and used it as a doormat until it wore out.
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