Anniversary

[Carl Remick]

>Al-Q and the Taliban have enforced a backward, reactionary theocracy. US
>culture, for all of its faults, is superior to that. Or would you prefer to
>operate in, say, Saudi Arabia?
>
>DP

Hooray, the US doesn't have public beheadings.  But we do nevertheless have 
capital punishment -- albeit neat, clean, clinically precise and minimally 
invasive! -- a hopelessly corrupt ruling establishment, ever dwindling civil 
rights and social services, and a culture stupefied by mindless religiosity. 

  We are, in short, a "backward, reactionary" (nominal) democracy.  I 
wouldn't cross the street to save the American Way of Life let alone go to 
war.

Carl

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