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by Christopher Huston
Bill, I think you are spot on.
To me, though, the purpose of harping on things like Gitmo, enhanced interrogation, etc., is so that America’s actions can be conflated with those of other nasty countries around the world. Once the idea of America’s moral superiority has been vanquished–something the Left appears eager to achieve despite crocodile tears to the contrary–then that opens the way for greater change at home.
To wit, if America is no better than any other country, then there’s nothing exceptional about it, and it there is nothing exceptional, then we don’t need to adhere to set traditions like the free market, or a powerful military with a leadership role in the world. And once those things are out of the way, then the citizenry should march in lockstep to a Western Europe-style social democracy. After all, we’d just be a bigger Belgium, or a more populous Canada at that point.
Using Gitmo as a hammer is part of this whole goal.
