But let us not be
exceptionalists. The utter degradation of American society by our bipartisan
imperialists is a tragedy, but only for those of us who happen to be
Americans. The full force of Obama's imperial manipulations -- like those of his
predecessors -- will fall like a ravaging fire on the innocent, the defenseless,
the vulnerable and the oppressed in foreign lands. These policies, these
horrific, sick-making "continuities," will engender untold suffering, unabated
anger, rising hatred, and more violence, more brutality, more barbarism, both in
the perpetrators and the victims, for years, for decades, for generations to
come.
Let no one be in any doubt. What Barack Obama announced on Tuesday is yet another vast, painful, wrenching defeat for all humanity, for the very idea of what it means to be human, for the progress of our whole wretched, imperfect, self-lacerating species. Everything that is best in us is driven back, beaten down, lacerated and abandon by such defeats. How many more can we afford?
Let no one be in any doubt. What Barack Obama announced on Tuesday is yet another vast, painful, wrenching defeat for all humanity, for the very idea of what it means to be human, for the progress of our whole wretched, imperfect, self-lacerating species. Everything that is best in us is driven back, beaten down, lacerated and abandon by such defeats. How many more can we afford?
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