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DetlefK

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2. I found a nice comparison: imagine a post-WWII Germany where the Nuremberg Trials never happened

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:53 AM

Dec 2014

Picture this:
Germany, after WWII. A fresh start for the country. Except there have never been the Nuremberg Trials and all the old Nazis are still hanging around, doing Nazi-politics, giving lectures and speeches in favor of national-socialism, writing books how great everything was in Nazi-Germany, drumming up voter-support for the latest slate of Neo-Nazi-politicians...

This is exactly what the US has become.
"Sure, we tortured and killed people in the concentration-camps, but we deemed it necessary at the time. Buy my new book."

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American Torture -- Past, Present, and� Future? [View all] marmar Dec 2014 OP

There are some countries that WILL remind the US that it's now member of the torture-club. DetlefK Dec 2014 #1

I found a nice comparison: imagine a post-WWII Germany where the Nuremberg Trials never happened DetlefK Dec 2014 #2

It also doesn't mention torture done by proxies CJCRANE Dec 2014 #3