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America is in denial about how ill it is. Too few people have anything like moral clarity. We have no stomach for what needs to be done. Americans evidently believe that it's better to "move forward" instead of treating a fatal disease. One wonders how big the pile of evidence, how heinous and dramatic the crimes must be for people to take action. We had an election last year. Change was promised. It's not happening. And as the days and weeks and months go by the likelihood of actually addressing our illness lessens. The probability of the destruction of our national principles and ideals becomes more certain. There is such a thing as the point of no return and it is very close.
Hannah Arendt wrote the term Banality of Evil. Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz probably personify this concept most completely but Dick Cheney is the one strutting the stage at the moment making the case that what happened was necessary, and that it was for the safety and good of the nation.
Adolph Eichmann was more of a functionary, a faceless bureaucrat that few would have known before his capture and trial in Israel. Although better known, David Addington, John Yoo or Alberto Gonzales and Douglas ("stupidest fucking guy on the planet") Feith are more like Eichmann in the heirarchy of things.Cheney is more like Goebels: unrepenant and arrogantly defending the evil that he engineered and orchestrated.

If we do not bring him down, and everything he represents, the United States of America will be a failed nation.