Knowledge Brings Fear

Hope lost

Not that the details surprise me anymore, but we clearly have reached the point where the US has no right at all to claim to be democratic (see last presidential elections that were decided in the courts) or to be a defender of human rights. What we read and see from Iraq and from the imprisoned moslems in the US is no different from any third world dictatorship that figures prominent in the human rights abuse reports.

Meanwhile even notorious countries can answer without any shame to US accusations of human rights abuses or democracy deficits, that the USA has no moral authority to say anything about these issues, and sadly they are right about that. If the biggest superpower has apparently given up on adhering to even the minimal standards of the Geneva Convention, every shady dictatorship can torture its opposition to death, claiming that these people are terrorists, without even the slightest trace of shame.

Christian fundamentalism as it currently governs the US is as dangerous as fundamental islam. Or as a saying goes: The main problem of the world today is that it is engulfed by scary monotheistic desert religions...
Welcome on our collective trip back to the Dark Ages.