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sebastian_dangerfield
McCarthyism is no footnote.
The terrorist imprisonment issue will be a footnote in a text college kids will buy and never open. It'll be discussed by people who think Joan Baez would've made a great senator.
Understand this - Americans are nothing if not utterly self-absrobed and completely self-righteous. You think anyone other than a few crazy liberals give a flying shit what happens to prisoners at Guatanamo Bay? NPR won't even talk about it in a few years.
The story has no legs. The Times doesn't even give it any ink anymore.
No. One. Cares. And no one ever will.
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On this topic, you appear even more cynical than me [god help us], but I definitely think you are much more correct about this than Burger.
