The US may be more blatant in its corruption, and is definitely more powerful, but our glass house is pretty vulnerable.
We've had secret trials — for instance, see this from none other than the Neocon National Post — our prisoners of war have human rights, and our citizens, after being tortured and then actually cleared of any wrongdoing still can't even come home ... and that's just after 5 minutes of google fu.
And never mind that our neocon Prime Minister is a bully and a blatant liar, or that half-a dozen years ago or so our Leader of the Opposition used words like "we" and "us" when he was talking about the United States (and supporting Bush's bullshit "war on terror").
Ahem. But I begin to rant, don't I?
Long story short, we're a middle power, but there's blood on our hands, too.
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dancing_serpent
Don't get *too* smug!
Date: 2009-05-29 07:43 pm (UTC)We've had secret trials — for instance, see this from none other than the
NeoconNational Post — our prisoners of war have human rights, and our citizens, after being tortured and then actually cleared of any wrongdoing still can't even come home ... and that's just after 5 minutes of google fu.And never mind that our neocon Prime Minister is a bully and a blatant liar, or that half-a dozen years ago or so our Leader of the Opposition used words like "we" and "us" when he was talking about the United States (and supporting Bush's bullshit "war on terror").
Ahem. But I begin to rant, don't I?
Long story short, we're a middle power, but there's blood on our hands, too.