I was listening to the Diane Rehm show this morning which had as its topic the Bush Legacy on Presidential Powers. At one point they were discussing the US moral standing in the world and one of the panelists echoed a line that came right out of the Decider's last news conference: Well, sure some corners of EUROPE like to criticize our morality, but we know how THOSE PEOPLE are.
Diane's panelist (since I tuned in late I didn't get all the names and hence won't point any fingers, but whoever it was clashed sharply and frequently with Bruce Fein, who came out foresquare in favor of prosecuting anyone who was breaking the law for the past 8 years) repeated the President's meme that only a certain class of EUROPEANS who had severe oversensitivties for their own guilt from 50 years ago, and took out their personal guilt exclusively on Geeorge W. Bush, had any problems with our torturing and detaining people, plotting and waging aggressive wars,
In Africa they love us. In Asia they love us. Even some EUROPEANS, not those degenerate Bush haters, love us.
Well....
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