A stain that will never wash out.
Where is the shining city on a hill, the paragon of morality and dignity that the rest of the world is supposed to look up to? It's gone; blown to bits in an unprovoked aggressive war, then tortured to death in the American Gulag. And for what? Nothing except an orgy of war profiteering by the "distinguished" members of the Republican party and their fellow traffickers in death and degradation.
Damn them. Damn them all.
(via Michael Froomkin)