Im sure that when Cato the Elder (the John McCain of ancient Rome) ended every speech with “Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed! anyone who objected was invariably denounced as a Punic apologist or a Didoist appeaser.” ` The idea that you cannot criticize your own countrys dangerous policies without automatically being a supporter (or lover) of the regimes targeted by those policies is primitive and puerile in the extreme -- which, naturally, makes it the prevailing attitude in Americas super-sophisticated and deeply nuanced political discourse today. -Chris Floyd, Jan 2015
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:56:21 +0000