| Sqrl said: Very true, this is one of those issues where people have opinions that run deep into their sense of morality. |
That's the problem with people these days. A hundred years ago there would have been no moral question. Back then, the prisoners in guantanamo bay would have been questioned and then executed. Period.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
