[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Larry: Didja read my paragraph in it’s entirety? Clearly not. “Yes, we’ve supported worse in our time”.
Read it again.
Plainly ignorant? Not so much.[/quote]
Actually, I did. A fair interpretation of “We’ve supported worse in our time” is to refer to our government “supporting” other despotic governments (Batista, Marcos, the Shah, etc., etc.), not an acknowledgement that our own US government imprisons people for years without charges or due process. Consequently, I stand by what I said, although I suppose in retrospect my tone was a bit harsh, but I am simply sick and tired of people who seem to think that by comparing the US to other crummy governments that the comparison somehow excuses the disgraceful actions of our own lawless government.
