Hillary in Midair

[Octafish]

43. That's when she said it.

It's been my experience that those who laugh at the deaths of others do not possess the personal characteristics needed for public office. Something else I've learned over the years, whatever the government of the United States does to people overseas, sooner, rather than later, gets practiced at home. Mark Twain noticed it during the Spanish American War:

We knew they supposed that we also were fighting in their worthy cause -- just as we had helped the Cubans fight for Cuban independence -- and we allowed them to go on thinking so. Until Manila was ours and we could get along without them. Then we showed our hand. Of course, they were surprised -- that was natural; surprised and disappointed; disappointed and grieved. To them it looked un-American; uncharacteristic; foreign to our established traditions. And this was natural, too; for we were only playing the American Game in public -- in private it was the European. It was neatly done, very neatly, and it bewildered them. They could not understand it; for we had been so friendly -- so affectionate, even -- with those simple-minded patriots! -- To the Person Sitting in Darkness

Must be old news to you. I'm sure most Americans haven't read that, though.