Looking at governments of the world, how many of them do not have military and intelligence relations with Washington? Washington even outsources torture to Syria, a government with which it is officially at odds.
>
> >You ever hear of anyone
> > in a 12-Step Program beseech others to take up, in his stead, the
> > habit he just kicked?
>
> The example I've been using in conversation is that of a shoe
> fetishist suffering from OCD and paranoid schizophrenia who refuses
> medication and, after a number of episodes of harrassment, arguably
> sexual assault, and shoplifting in the course of "liberating" his
> beloved footwear, is served a restraining order to bar him from within
> 500ft of a Nike superstore. Note that this restriction does NOT
> exclude others from shoe shopping!
Americans have not "hit the bottom," so to speak. If others smoke crack on their own, that's their business, but you have no business _asking_ others to smoke it or selling the stuff to them.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>