A good article in the latest New Yorker, pointing out that there’s really nothing new about America torturing people, or even “regime change” or bringing “freedom” to people by shooting them. What strikes me as a major difference between the occupation and pacification of the Philippines and that of Afghanistan and Iraq is not that we tortured, and are torturing, people in all those places, but that early in the 20th century some Americans were actually prosecuted for waterboarding Filipinos, while early in the 21st century the Executive and Legislative branches are cooperating to make sure that absolutely no one is ever prosecuted for torturing anyone. So, forgotten history doesn’t always repeat itself . . .
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