who controls the past now, controls the future

[chadfu]

in spite of its many sicknesses, i love america. it's wasteful, it abuses power, it pollutes the planet, it takes disgusting excess for granted and acts with an arrogant disregard for the way others are affected, but i still love it. it's home to me. it's home to many of the people and things i love, a melting pot of countless cultures and ways of

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[suessigkeiten]

i think this would be a lot stronger if you changed words like "bother" and "irritate" to something stronger. because, shit, dude, you aren't bothered by the actions of america's leaders, you're fucking pissed, right? and you wouldn't be irritated by someone else taking credit for your actions, you'd be enraged.

at least, i would.

[chadfu]

there goes my favorite editor...

[chadfu]

(that comes with a nod of agreement and a wrinkly smile)

[lyrane]

Hilariously enough, that self-incriminating rag of a mission statement the PNAC wrote up a decade ago (http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm) is now working to their advantage. In between all the meat about protecting American economic interests and making sure we stay at the top of the heap, there's a sprig of parsley about "promoting the cause of economic and political freedom abroad". This is getting spun, by everybody under the sun, to mean that Wolfowitz and Cheney had the idea ages ago that "everybody in the world wants to be free!" and that they acted on that and dadgum, they was right.