This Reagan one is a bonus...
Myth of Reaganomics
http://mises.org/story/1544
Torture isn’t cool just b/c WE do it:
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side ... The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them
George Orwell
It’s probably better surmised here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/08/nuremberg/index.html
and here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/12/24/torture/
These are about torture and abuse. And “we’re America so we can do it” isn’t a defense. No one every commits war crimes without saying they were just defending the homeland.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/16/terror/main680658.shtml
http://www.newser.com/story/45080/senate-report-pins-torture-on-rumsfeld.html
Waterboarding:, a war crime we executed Japanese for:
http://www.newser.com/story/39975/secret-white-house-memos-okd-waterboarding.html
http://www.newser.com/story/28074/ex-detainee-describes-gitmo-tortures.html
Extraordinary rendition:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/02/14/050214fa_fact6
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