I'm not sure what the world will do with a U.S. gone mad ...

digby: TV Politics

Here's a stomach churning example buried on page 7 of the NY Times today that made me want to turn off the computer, go to the beach ... and just keep walking:

In a report on Friday, the lead investigator for the Council of Europe gave a bleak description of secret prisons run by the Central Intelligence Agency in Eastern Europe ...

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Whatever it turns out to be it will not be good for the U.S. nor for the rest of the world. Unless we can cure ourselves, and there is no great groundswell of Americans who wish to do so (that I can see) then the rest of the world will eventually stand together against us. Just imagine a Bush, or Romney or Guiliani or McCain in office when that happens ...