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![]() Just Above Sunset
June 12, 2005 - Decline and Fall
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"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible
to one another and to God." - Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Orders No. 100, art. 15 (1863) Times
change. Our friend, the high-powered Wall Street attorney,
from his offices thirty-two stories above lower Manhattan, with a view down on the Statue of Liberty, sends us a note about
recent current events items we’ve discussed – The news is disturbing,
but then, you just report it, you don't make it. Perhaps so. Maybe things will move in another direction after the 2008 elections.
Maybe not. No one can be sure. Senator Joseph Biden
of Delaware has now called for Guantanamo to be closed down. Absolutely right. If you click on the Cole
item he had embedded links so you can check out all the items to which he refers. As noted last Sunday here, the historian Walter Russell Mead has argued that the Bush administration fits into the "Jacksonian tradition" in American
politics. One of this tradition's core beliefs is that normal rules of warfare
are suspended when dealing with "dishonorable enemies." Mead gives the example
of the Indian wars in which American soldiers, enraged by Indian fighting tactics, waged battle ruthlessly and with no holds
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