in my opinion,
we began to go wrong when the cold war started... we began to accept that results justified means..... we accepted and promoted the idea that we could manipulate the world with covert violence and subterfuge..... and we believed that we would not be affected as a nation.....
now we glorify the covert actions groups that their initial promulgators hoped that we'd never know existed..... people raise their children to the ideal of the elite covert warrior..... we idolize the ninja, who were a criminal caste, and whom their own mothers refused to acknowledge their relationship to... we've made a hero of the sniper, of all things, because he is useful in the world that we have created.....
in short, we call bad good, until we don't know the difference...... john w
