JDG wrote:

> Sorry, but does anyone remember the red scare, McCarthyism, the
> missile gap, air raid drills in schools, backyard nuclear shelters,
> the Sputnik gap, "We Will Bury You", the domino theory, managed
> decline, etc.?????

Yet throughout that period human rights advanced, transparency
improved and the power of the executive declined.

> And I might point out that while some Muslim clerics may have been
> unfairly denied boarding onto a flight yesterday, we haven't exactly
> evicted all Muslims from their homes and sent them to concentration
> camps either.   Yes, but it is *our* generation that is "driven
> almost insane."

It is our generation that has sanctioned torture, a practice we would
have attributed to insanity in the past.  I for one am deeply ashamed.

Doug



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