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January 30, 2003

‘We sacrifice for the liberty of strangers.’

I think one of the more frightening words I learned as a freshman in high school was one favored especially by a certain prominent and infamously amoral German American statesman: realpolitik.

I’m nearly twice as old now, and equally horrified, equally afraid, though the men of power couldn’t be any more different. They act in the name of peace, liberty, and mercy.

posted at 12:52 AM | grrr, politics/history

comments

  1. “We” being the working poor and “strangers” being the wealthy elite?

    Yesterday on NPR I heard a man say about the $15 mil. promised to fight AIDS, “we’re trying to figure out what the catch is.”

    WHAT THE CATCH IS?

    Sir, he’s shaking your hand with his right hand and stabbing you in the throat with his left.

    posted by seth on January 30, 2003 10:00 AM

  2. Seth, I refuse to respond to your blatant class-baiting.

    posted by Ari Fleischer on January 30, 2003 1:51 PM

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