Dick Cheney IS America (Did We Really Think the World Hated Us for No Reason?)

Don't you think it's a bit late for us to cry and blubber about our "moral authority," after we've already killed 200,000 Afghans and Iraqis?    Yes, we now have the Torture Report in front of us and that psychopath Dick Cheney defending it on national television, although he claims he never got around to reading it.  But what difference does it make?

After 9/11 America became a lynch mob, pure and simple.  Half the country is still running around in that mode.  Osama bin Laden probably performed the dastardly act to knock us off our high horse so that the world could see that we were just as immoral and as much a violator of human rights as everyone else when push came to shove. He was only wrong in the sense that we turned out to be even more depraved than most. 

America is not exceptional.  Maybe that should become our new mantra. America is as ordinary as every other bully, which has used its might to pretend that it is something other than what it really is.