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Originally Posted by GreyWolf
What bothers me most about this is the general apathy of the American population to this squandering of their accumulated moral capital. As a supposed bastion of justice and human rights, this should be sending shock waves through the US, led by the American media. That it does not is a reflection of America's insular society and its inability to truly understand the global situation. As the only current superpower, the US government feels itself above reproach for its actions, and cannot conceive that it is losing the moral high ground on all fronts.
And it is sadder still that the Americans who do realise this, and care about it, and would like to change things, are heard only by those countrymen who already agree with them, and cannot raise any real outrage at what is being done to them through guilt by citizenship.
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What I find most perplexing is the idea many seem to have that, since "America" is a bastion of morality and justice, that anything we do is de facto both moral and just. There is a certain beauty in the cerebral contortions Americans can exhibit in justifying our actions when those actions are clearly immoral and unjust.
The American media, over the past couple decades, has devolved into an electronic version of
People magazine. When I say media, I refer only to the portion of the media that still considers itself journalistic, as by now most have forgone that journalism in favor of an "analytical commentary" style that is about as analytical as the
20-Minute Workout.
Covering a story like this would require them to abandon the between-advertisement time-filler format they've adopted. I can't imagine that happening anytime soon.