re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

We are in the hands of devils. Even the fucking Nazis did not publicly proclaim that their tortures and atrocities were right and lawful. This is not to say that Haspel and the CIA contractors are equivalent to Nazis, they aren’t, but it is a matter of degree rather than of substance. The Nazis at least had enough self-awareness not to baldly assert that wrong was right or that they were pursuing policies that contradicted all the civilized values for which they allegedly stood. Their constituency, the German masses, might not have tolerated it either if they had known, which doesn’t say much for the Trump base.

This is the enduring stain from the W Bush administration. It was not sufficiently removed in the Obama years, and is now making a comeback.