All of this could result in American actions being brought ever more before the public eye and the bar of justice, and, even if Americans charged abroad with pertinent crimes will not be extradited by the United States, their movement around the world could at least be inconvenienced. For some the inconvenience might be very great.
So . . . . . Always remembering the definition of pretext ("pretext," meaning to lie or, at minimum, to falsely pretend), it would appear that, one way or another, the Pretexter-in-Chief, the Vice Pretexter and their corps of henchpeople pretexters are going to be in it for fair sooner or later. What they have done, ordered, desired, and been complicit in is likely to become ever more public by one means or another. One's great fear, of course, is that even though their horrid actions are detailed in public, the American people, especially because of the perhaps one third who are instinctually red state conservatives-to-reactionaries, will still fail to care a damn, or at least to care enough of a damn, about what the pretexters have wrought, will fail to care, or to care enough, about the war, the torture, the lying, the foreign and domestic disasters, about punishing those responsible for the disasters, just is nobody was punished for the pretexting, immoral, hopeless disaster that was Viet Nam. Even so, one can be fairly confident that history will punish the Bushian pretexters and the country, the U.S., which succored them. And unhappily for us, other nations, given the justifiable dislike, even hatred, of us that many of them have developed because of the pretexters' actions, might in various ways punish us long before history does.*
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So . . . . . Always remembering the definition of pretext ("pretext," meaning to lie or, at minimum, to falsely pretend), it would appear that, one way or another, the Pretexter-in-Chief, the Vice Pretexter and their corps of henchpeople pretexters are going to be in it for fair sooner or later. What they have done, ordered, desired, and been complicit in is likely to become ever more public by one means or another. One's great fear, of course, is that even though their horrid actions are detailed in public, the American people, especially because of the perhaps one third who are instinctually red state conservatives-to-reactionaries, will still fail to care a damn, or at least to care enough of a damn, about what the pretexters have wrought, will fail to care, or to care enough, about the war, the torture, the lying, the foreign and domestic disasters, about punishing those responsible for the disasters, just is nobody was punished for the pretexting, immoral, hopeless disaster that was Viet Nam. Even so, one can be fairly confident that history will punish the Bushian pretexters and the country, the U.S., which succored them. And unhappily for us, other nations, given the justifiable dislike, even hatred, of us that many of them have developed because of the pretexters' actions, might in various ways punish us long before history does.*
This posting represents the personal views of Lawrence R. Velvel. If you wish to respond to this email/blog, please email me. Your response may be posted on the blog if you have no objection; please tell me if you do object.
VelvelOnNationalAffairs is now available as a podcast. To subscribe please visit VelvelOnNationalAffairs.com, and click on the link on the top left corner of the page. The podcasts can also be found on iTunes or at www.lrvelvel.libsyn.com
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