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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Because this is America, damnit, and it matters. This Republican pragmatic ends-justifying-the-means bullshit has got to stop. I was taught growing up that we are not a country that invades another on a pretense. We don't torture people, or come so close as to make it a question. We don't incarcerate people indefinitely without charging them. So please, Republicans, I'm begging you: STOP FUCKING UP ALL THAT IS AMERICA.

It matters because were the ones who saved the world from Nazis, and did so without torturing them. It matters because it is a mark of shame that we interned the Japanese. It matters because we melded postwar Europe and Japan in our own polical image and they believed what we told them about the fundamental rights of humanity. It matters because we inspired the people in Tianamen square to believe that the world could be better. It matters because we are the peace makers, not the war-mongering imperialists.

It just matters.

We're the Japanese ready for Democracy?