eat it!

 Subtitle: moral bankruptcy[1,2].

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«Attention liberals. Waterboarding stopped terrorist attacks, maybe dozens. That's what the CIA agent said. The case is closed. We will continue to waterboard. Eat it.»

[posted 11:23 am on 12/12/2007 by thacher]

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Illegally invading Palestine or any other neighbouring land outside the original 1947 UN remit, following up with a brutal occupation in order to steal land and water was and remains toadally® justifiable.

Eliot Ramsey: "Eat it!"

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Illegally invading Iraq, following up with a brutal occupation in order to steal oil for our 4WDs & SUVs was and remains toadally justifiable.

Ian MacDougall: "Eat it!"

Paul Morrella: "Eat it!"

«Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. [As for Asia, read "world"] In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.

... We should dispense with the aspiration to "be liked" or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers' keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague and—for the Far East—unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.»

[February 28, 1948, Declassified June 17, 1974]

For "power concepts" read USrael m/i-plex; murder for spoil.

USrael: "Eat it!"

«Over the next two and a half decades, U.S.-funded and trained Central American security forces would disappear tens of thousands of citizens and execute hundreds of thousands more. When supporters of the "War on Terror" advocated the exercise of the "Salvador Option," it was this slaughter they were talking about.»

[Bob Wall/Tomgram: Greg Grandin, On the Torturable and the Untorturable]

USrael: "Eat it!"

Perhaps that's why these two are:

«...that happy couple, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the new White House poodles now Tony Blair has gone.»

[Bob Wall/Uri Avnery/How They Stole the Bomb From Us]

And speaking of bombs, the US drops'em all'a time. Like the A-bombings of roughly 140,000 plus 74,000 Japanese ... the overwhelming majority of the deaths were those of civilians:

"Eat it!"

Perhaps that explains the obesity epidemic.

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PS It's not only the visible military extremes of murder for spoil, there's the Chicago School ideology they push everywhere, the World Bank / IMF fiddles à la Perkins' "Economic Hit Man" and Klein's "Disaster Capitalism." Not to forget the US$ fiat currency / PetroDollar / M3 swindles, and the resource-rent rip-offs in the mineral sectors. Finally, there's the threatening greenhouse catastrophe that the US mostly creates then ignores.

Oh, well; I report, you decide.

PPS Resistance and Hope
By Charles Sullivan
12/12/07

«If we Americans [plus hangers-on] are nothing more than hopelessly addicted consumers who think of ourselves as an exceptional people with special entitlements; if we see ourselves as god’s morally superior chosen people; if we are selfish and greedy beyond redemption—then we are complicit in all of the horrible crimes that government commits in our name.»

[ICH]

Ref(s):

[1] moral —adj. 1 a concerned with goodness or badness of human character or behaviour, or with the distinction between right and wrong. b concerned with accepted rules and standards of human behaviour. 2 a virtuous in general conduct. b capable of moral action. 3 (of rights or duties etc.) founded on moral not actual law. 4 associated with the psychological rather than the physical (moral courage; moral support). —n. 1 moral lesson of a fable, story, event, etc. 2 (in pl.) moral behaviour, e.g. in sexual conduct.  morally adv. [Latin mos mor- custom]

[2] bankrupt —adj. 1 legally declared insolvent. 2 (often foll. by of) exhausted or drained (of emotion etc.). —n. insolvent person, esp. one whose assets are used to repay creditors. —v. make bankrupt.  bankruptcy n. (pl. -ies). [Italian banca rotta broken bench: related to *bank2]