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the only way in which it can be seen as a problem to release these photos is if you are of the political persuasion that sees in hypernationalist cretinism a correlate of love as defined by eric segal. so the united states advances itself as upholding the rule of law blah blah blah as over against those nasty lawless Terrorists and in the process becomes what it is fighting and the conservatives here don't see a problem with that? so the issue for them is why compromise that Might Facade of American Imperial Power by releasing them? but the facade is already compromised. the party is changing location.
but if you think about it releasing the photos can be seen as a ritual action designed to repudiate everything the neo-cons stood for. this is what their politics led to. this is hwo far those politics compromised us. this is one of the ways that we can self-correct. this brings the image of the states a little closer to what the right likes to blab about. no wonder releasing them is a Problem for conservatives: through it they loose a little more of their claim to the things they purport to stand for--like law, the rule of law.
maybe someday there'll be a degree of honesty from the right and folk will own up to the fact that everything theyre arguing these days is about political self-preservation--that it attempting to salvage their politics from te wreckage that the implementation of those politics visited upon it--and nothing else.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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