I remember my civics class in high school and how we learned that freedom was the basis of our Constitution and individual rights. It is why we honor those among us who help defend it. But to maintain our freedom we must demand the truth from our leaders. Without the truth we have no freedom. Freedom is not based on lies about reasons for war. To lose our national treasure, which is the lives of our young soldiers, under the pretense of fear and lies is the utmost betrayal of our freedom that a leader can perpetrate against its citizens.
To propagate the false impression that we as a country can do no wrong and that somehow American exceptionalism allows us justification for preemptive war and torture is a lie in the highest degree. If the present administration neocon coble believes we are a chosen country and that their view of God gives them the right to impose their will on the world then don’t whine about it when in the future another world power does the same and we are the recipient of their wrath. Political and religious freedom can only be based on truth, not lies, mythical superstitions and revisionist history. Nationalistic hegemony is nothing new and America is not the first or will it be the last nation to fall to the allure of self-righteous arrogance and theocratic illusions.