| akuma587 said: I'd rather live in my fantasy world than your fantasy world where torture is morally acceptable. That sounds like a pretty shitty world. |
I only wish we had a choice to actually live in fantasy land. I so wish it was possible. But alas, in the real world we have to make tough choices to survive.
Your morality isn't as absolute as you think. I really do think you’ll come around to my way of thinking. But it may take you a while to accept it.
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
