"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Wages of Sin, We Keep Paying
"What I?m saying is that a completely forseeable consequence of Guantanamo Bay is the creation of terrorists. Or, to be more nuanced, arbitrary and indefinite detention, which in itself is torture, is the sort of thing that makes a person already angry at the western world and willing to maybe help the Taliban out on a thing or two decide: That's it: ain't no half stepping. No sleep till suicide bomb."
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