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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
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.
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People seem to have interest in the WWII internment camps and in Vietnam (Viet Nam, whatever), so I disagree with you two. I don't think that the Guantanamo/overseas detention and torture stuff will necessarily stand on its own, but the massaging (note how nicely I put that) of intelligence within the Administration for the Iraq war, particularly given that Iraq isn't and wasn't connected significantly with the main terrorist threat (al Qaeda), plus the torture and the coverups, will I think be in a lot of people's heads as a dark time in history, like Watergate or Vietnam or internment. People may not know the details, but if you say "good or bad -- vietnam/watergate/japanese internment" or if you say "what do you associate with Nixon," you know what the answers will be. People who aren't interested or knowledgable about history to get into the nuances pretty much think "bad/scandal" on all of those. Bush II and Iraq invasion will go the same way, and I think that in the US, many people will be more concerned with American actions in the whole convoluted nuanced mess than with how bad Hussein was.
I want to do some kind of Pol Pot/Hussein compare and contrast, but I don't know enough.
