
“Unfortunately for the politician who made famous the line ‘How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?‘, Kerry’s case in front of the committee was more a textbook example of how acting as the world’s policeman for decades has warped the country’s values, judgment, and even language. I counted at least seven moments that qualified in my judgment as obscene, exposing along the way the administration’s empty and contradictory arguments for air-mailing death upon a regime that does not pose a direct threat in the United States.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/04/john-kerrys-morally-linguistically-and-h
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